waste
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Don’t waste one brain cell trying to deduce the assassin.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
Purchasing-card use by government employees, including waste and alleged fraud, is stoking taxpayer backlash in cities and towns across the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Yet Nancy Altman, president of the advocacy group Social Security Works, described such a commission as “a waste of time.”
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
Daera said on Thursday that levels of bacteria from sewage or animal waste, were not high enough to pose a risk.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
“Agatha Swanburne was a very wise woman who once said, ‘Few would waste a perfectly good sandwich, so why waste a perfectly good mind?’
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing waste
Common Five-letter Words for Wordle, List 4
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Natural Resources and the Environment - Introductory
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Earth Science - Middle School
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