squander
verb (used with object)
to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed byaway ).
are squandering
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present progressiveof squander.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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We are squandering that advantage arguing about whether to peel guardrails off jail-breakable systems and blacklisting the companies that build them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
I have wondered in these pages whether people are squandering their retirement on eating out.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 24, 2026
After years of ever-inflating medical costs, American companies and union benefit plans have alleged in a series of lawsuits that the country’s biggest health insurers are squandering their money.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2023
In the Bering Sea, waters are warming faster than snow crabs can adapt, and overzealous fishing boats are squandering chances of population recuperation in the Bering Sea.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2022
You think, I suppose, that I’m squandering my money as you are squandering yours.”
From A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day by Fritz Oswald Bilse
