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Example sentences for: squander

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The fiscal consensus is that politicians of both parties have once again managed to take credit for a windfall not of their making (since the economy is generating enough revenue to balance the budget without any deal) and squander the windfall on politically calculated handouts.
Working from a trim novel by Tom Perrotta, Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor don't squander their resources on crowds or parades or elaborate spoofs of ceremony, the way most political satires tend to do.
To "squander" the money, in Clinton's language, is to "spend" it on tax cuts.
It is far better for anyone to kill a single American soldier than to squander his efforts on other activities," he said.
However, I'd like to squander my space here with something I find far more riveting, and infinitely more disturbing: I'm referring, of course, to the announcement today that American Media Inc.--the company that owns the National Enquirer , the Weekly World News , and the Star --is buying the publisher of the Globe , the Sun and the National Examiner for $105 million.