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"is wasted on" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that someone doesn't fully appreciate or benefit from, usually when you are expressing a regret that something was not used to its full potential. For example: "All that time and effort she put into her project was wasted on her uninterested instructor."
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Irony is wasted on Lazar.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Aid is wasted on corruption.
I'd say life is wasted on … people".
And they say that youth is wasted on the young.
People say that youth is wasted on the young.
Only 0.7% of welfare spending is wasted on fraud.
"This campaign is wasted on Buick," he said.
Nothing – not a scrap – is wasted on Trill Farm.
More than £75m annually is wasted on detaining migrants who are then released, say campaigners.
HALLOWEEN is wasted on the young, to misquote George Bernard Shaw.
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