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In the troupe’s farewell this week to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a longtime home for the company, it presents, prodigally, three different programs in four performances only.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2011

The Army & Navy hold that there is such a case: >The prodigally democratic U.S. had very few real secrets left to keep when it went to war.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Singer's wife is washing Singer's socks in the kitchen sink and weeping prodigally," a fairly typical episode begins.

From Time Magazine Archive

Official 19th century buildings, we learned, were extravagances, inhumanly axial, prodigally wasteful and blind to the technology of their age.

From Time Magazine Archive

The honors which every one who “can above himself erect himself” estimates as the very richest, Mr. Davis has had given him more prodigally than any other man.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin