as in wastes
an instance of spending money or resources without care or restraint
his purchase of a new yacht was only one of a series of reckless prodigalities
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Noun
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At odds with California’s climate goal of achieving zero-net carbon pollution, logging and milling wastes promptly release half a tree’s carbon into the atmosphere.—
John P. O’Brien,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025 -
What never stops, though, is the eternal leak of CO2 from the necks of volcanoes poking above the frozen wastes.—
Peter Brannen
August 28,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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These ideas are not luxuries, but the foundation of a free republic.—
Nick Mordowanec,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Good health and vitality are the real luxuries, and that should be the goal.—
Victoria Uwumarogie,
Essence,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Prodigalities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prodigalities. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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