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Discover LudwigThe phrase "waste talent" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the act of not utilizing one's skills or abilities effectively. Example: It would be a shame to waste her talent for singing by not pursuing a career in music.
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It is a shame to waste talent, but he played his hand and lost.
"Critics go gentle on Allen's later work, which very often needn't exist and waste talent that even if it wasn't doing better work elsewhere, could be resting".
Understandably, less cohesive societies – with more drugs, more crime and lower mobility – waste talent, and are not good places to do business.
The easy illusion that we have become less hidebound because we can laugh at Downton Abbey or Boris Johnson conceals the fact that our divided, class-ridden society continues to waste talent and squander lives.
If you look at it in terms of class, race, gender, there are lots of opportunities not to waste talent and that is what it is all about: making clear that talent has a place to play in business".
"It's not right to waste talent.
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The wasted talent among women used to be unbelievable.
Jack Rodwell epitomised the way that our game wastes talent.
The numbers represent "a tremendous impression of dislocation and pain and wasted talent," he said.
At long last, I've become Gadget Girl Earlier this week, I wrote about Britain's wasted talent.
Until recently his career looked like a parable of wasted talent.
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