profligate
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Skepticism about the wisdom of these profligate plans are a problem for indexes that are heavily weighted toward big tech like the S&P 500, which ended the week slightly lower.
From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026
More broadly, what investors must keep in mind is that Japan’s high debt-to-GDP ratio is largely the result of decades of stagnant growth and deflation, not profligate spending.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
Yet her subject matter—life in an ordinary English village—contrasts with the Prince’s profligate metropolitan existence, and to most of his countrymen he appeared an “inveterate voluptuary,” of whom Austen, like many of her class, disapproved.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Captain Dan Sheehan, Tomos Williams and Elliot Daly scored in a first half largely dominated by the profligate hosts in terms of territory but not on the scoreboard.
From BBC • Jun. 28, 2025
Lewis was so confident of his process that he was profligate with what was still a rare substance.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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