as in consumes
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to spend more money than usual on something for yourself
You should let yourself splurge once in a while.
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Verb
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Yet a cannabis marketer who consumes — or, just as notably, one who doesn’t — often finds their professional credibility subjected to a level of scrutiny that has no real parallel elsewhere.
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One early target is underground mine ventilation, which consumes a significant share of electricity at subsurface operations.
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Even hydration can be transformed by infusing water with fruit and mint, or enjoying sparkling water with a lime wedge, making small indulgences accessible and enjoyable.
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Chocolate is one of Americans' favorite indulgences, with consumers spending billions of dollars on it every year.
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The deeper the water, the sooner a vehicle loses traction on the road.
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And the company doing the genuine, expensive work of transition loses the one advantage the label was meant to confer, cheaper capital and patient shareholders who believe the plan.
Noun
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And as in those days, extravagances like butler service and delicacies like caviar, lobster, and seafood towers are at the ready.
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Still, Stroheim’s spending was out of control—literally so, insofar as attempting to rein him in seemed to provoke new extravagances.
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Watching this scene, and much of the film, exhausts me.
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If the search for a large outdoor planter exhausts you—just get a terra-cotta planter.
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Salted and preserved fish and meats, including bacon, sausage, liver pudding and offal, were staples of working-class people's diets, while the upper classes indulged in such luxuries as white flour and sugar.
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Due to postwar prosperity and changes in pool-construction technology, private pools were no longer considered luxuries but within reach of the burgeoning middle-class.
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