waste
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One time, both mother and daughter ordered the most expensive dessert at about $16 each only to eat half of one and left the other — that kind of waste.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Those channels provide a direct route through which immune cells and cellular waste can travel between the brain and nearby skull bone marrow.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
We also inspired people like the journalist Nick Shirley, who has identified fraud in Minnesota and California, to continue the crusade against waste and abuse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The program was the subject of some online criticism, including that it was a waste of resources.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
“It’s a waste of time. Especially since I’m going to be a motocross driver. Dad said I could.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
It just wastes the strategy — and your money.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
In 1958, working-class voters and Democrats were within 5 points of each other on whether government wastes a lot of tax money.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
His 13 league goals for Brighton last season came from 12.5 expected goals, a steady return that reflects a striker who finishes at expectation and rarely wastes chances.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
“Remake” has a tragic tale to tell and director Ross McElwee wastes no time revealing its grieving heart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
Our hardest task is teaching people to count on a future: to plant citrus trees, and compost their wastes for fertilizer.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
While Genghis may have been the most skilled chief among his Mongol contemporaries, his skills would have been wasted if he had been born 20 years earlier, or 200 miles to the south.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
In the age of busyness, it’s easy to worry that even a moment wasted could transform into a pile of stress, and money lost.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
If you’re working hard at the wrong things, “that's wasted effort.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Ireland are heavily reliant on Lewis and all-rounder Prendergast, and when the latter fell for 19 after Lewis' knock of 69, there was a worry that their solid platform would be wasted.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
As she spoke, Lucy turned crimson, though it was only momentarily, for her poor wasted veins could not stand for long such an unwonted drain to the head.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Without collecting race and ethnicity data in the census, these estimates could not be produced, needlessly wasting resources and endangering lives.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Financial planners will typically advise customers to keep their finances simple, which would usually include avoiding wasting time on gimmicks.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Executives agreed that AI is delivering outsize value in some cases, but they found that in the majority of cases, it’s wasting more money than it’s worth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
“Do you represent the zeitgeist of the moment or are you wasting everybody’s time?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Hugh told me that I was wasting my time, that they were looking for people who'd bought platinum watches, not rusted cranial saws.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris