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been squandering
verb
To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.
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Companies have been squandering shareholders' money on wasteful, low-yielding investment.
Abe seems to recognize that Japan has been squandering its greatest foreign-policy asset — its democracy.
For 10 years we have been squandering our greatest opportunity of the nuclear age to get rid of these weapons.
We have been squandering and polluting this precious resource and are now in need of finding cost competitive newer technologies for reclaiming this valuable life-sustaining liquid.
Last week's announcement by Mo Mowlam that she is quitting politics seems to justify our concerns that the government has been squandering its female assets.
We inherited incredible riches of goodwill -- a world that admired our values and wanted a seat at our table -- and we have been squandering them.
In all, Dimitrov converted on just one of 10 break points, which was, come to think of it, yet another parallel with Federer, considering the rate at which he has been squandering opportunities in 2013.
Mr. Priebus continued, "Reports have come out showing he's lost control of his government: the IRS has been squandering taxpayers' hard-earned dollars on luxurious million dollar trips and conferences".
Had it been important for national security to know what Doris would do next, and what made Doris tick, the state would have been squandering resources on finding out next to nothing.
At home, rather than allowing his ministers to rail about reparations, he needs to get behind reform, and explain to his voters why Syriza's extravagant election promises cannot be kept.Under Mr Tsipras Greece has been squandering opportunities to make a deal with the rest of the euro zone.
Then he arraigned Israel's leadership and delivered a heavy verdict: "For many years, the State of Israel has been squandering not only the lives of its sons but also its miracle, that grand and rare opportunity that history bestowed upon it, the opportunity to establish here a state that is efficient, democratic, which abides by Jewish and universal values.... Look at what befell us.
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