free-spending
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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As subscriber growth slows, Big Streaming is buckling down on revenue maximization and pulling back on its free-spending ways.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 12, 2025
Even a stellar fourth quarter might not reassure the market, as a surge in chip sales could add to worries that Oracle and its free-spending peers are inflating an AI bubble.
From Barron's • Dec. 11, 2025
It has won just four Spanish championships in the past half-century and often found itself scrambling for funding—a problem that free-spending Real has rarely encountered.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025
Big money is pouring into the SoCal desert’s music economy, with the new Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert and free-spending Yaamava’ resort near Highland among them.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2024
At first Peter did not respond to the overtures and insistance of the handsome, well-dressed, free-spending, New York swell.
From The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Ford, Paul Leicester
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