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This process churns out neutrinos so profligately that “people were always intrigued with the possibility of using muons as a neutrino source,” says André de Gouvêa, a neutrino theorist at Northwestern University.

From Scientific American • Aug. 28, 2023

“He confided it, displayed it, spread it profligately, even expanded it to connect it with your life. He would settle for nothing less.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 12, 2020

Wilson probably had more time than he realised and profligately placed a left-footed shot from 12 yards well wide of the far upright.

From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2019

Too often, we precisely monitor the former and profligately praise the latter.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2016

It is related, that he who devised the oath of abjuration, profligately boasted, that he had framed a test which should 'damn one half of the nation, and starve the other.'

From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman