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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
squander .
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Examples
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When a team "squanders" or lets slip away a golden scoring opportunity, it goes well beyond the more general "left on base" statistic.
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MR. LEAVY: Well, it's -- I think "squanders" is a broad term.
Press Briefing By Jake Siewert And David Leavy ITY National Archives 1999
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The Bowiesque chorus kind of squanders the momentum, but not for long.
London Free Press 2009
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Haringey 'squanders' £24m on consultants as Baby P suffered social workers 'salaries on private consultants while overstretched staff failed to save Baby P, the Standard can reveal.
WN.com - Articles related to LI woman fights to stem the march of Alzheimers 2009
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I disagree with the author of that piece, David Gal, who claims that the platform strategy is a mistake because it "squanders" rather than helps the core asset of Facebook, which is the community of people.
Techdirt 2009
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Palin's scant experience as an elected official -- she was mayor of a small town for six years and has been governor of Alaska for less than two -- "squanders" McCain's advantage over Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in terms of experience in office and readiness to lead, the women voters said.
Turkish Press 2008
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I really dig this set-up, but the movie kind of squanders it, never really getting scary.
Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 2008
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I really dig this set-up, but the movie kind of squanders it, never really getting scary.
Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 2008
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Palin's scant experience as an elected official -- she was mayor of a small town for six years and has been governor of Alaska for less than two -- "squanders" McCain's advantage over Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in terms of experience in office and readiness to lead, the women voters said.
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Palin's scant experience as an elected official - she was mayor of a small town for six years and has been governor of Alaska for less than two - "squanders" McCain's advantage over Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in terms of experience in office and readiness to lead, the women voters said.
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