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The team argues that traditional barrel aging is a wasteful process, where you lose 20 percent of the product through evaporation, and one that is hard to replicate.
Bespoken Spirits raises $2.6M in seed funding to combine machine learning and accelerated whiskey aging|Frederic Lardinois|October 7, 2020|TechCrunch
It will seem wasteful and barbaric compared to growing exactly the cuts of meat that we want, with no death or pollution involved.
This Startup Is Growing Sushi-Grade Salmon From Cells in a Lab|Vanessa Bates Ramirez|September 16, 2020|Singularity Hub
The plastics industry is extraordinarily wastefulThe report summarizes four aspects of the industry’s wasteful ways.
Big Oil’s hopes are pinned on plastics. It won’t end well.|David Roberts|September 4, 2020|Vox
Two-thirds agree that “government is usually inefficient and wasteful.”
Hey, Boomers—Millennials Hate Your Partisan Crap|Nick Gillespie|July 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Though with budget cuts now looming, Congress is trying to gut some of those benefits while wasteful programs go untouched.
The U.S. Military Is a Socialist Paradise|Jacob Siegel|April 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The most interesting part of eccentricity may be just how wasteful it usually is.
The World According to an Eccentric|Justin Green|April 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
If those 3s turn into 2's and 1's, then it will be clear that this whole program was a giant, wasteful mess.
Solyndra 2.0|Megan McArdle|April 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In search of wasteful government spending, Eric Cantor sets his pants on fire.
Sequester Misfire: Eric Cantor’s World of Warcraft Nonsense|John Avlon|February 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The first period resulted in a good deal of wasteful effort on both sides.
Center Rush Rowland|Ralph Henry Barbour
The vexatious and wasteful conflict between naturalism and humanism is terminated.
Reconstruction in Philosophy|John Dewey
In that wasteful day a timber-claim was not looked upon as valuable.
The Valley of the Giants|Peter B. Kyne
The tax-exempt organizations have a vested interest in the oppressive, inequitable, and wasteful federal-income-tax system.
The Invisible Government|Dan Smoot
To my mind, in the wasteful and blighting influences of slave labor there is a solemn and warning moral.
The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII)|John Greenleaf Whittier

单词	wasteful
释义	wasteful [ weyst-fuhl ] / ˈweɪst fəl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR wasteful ON THESAURUS.COM adjective given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life. grossly extravagant; prodigal: a wasteful party. devastating or destructive: wasteful war. Origin of wasteful Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at waste, -ful OTHER WORDS FROM wasteful waste·ful·ly, adverbwaste·ful·ness, nounun·waste·ful, adjectiveun·waste·ful·ly, adverb un·waste·ful·ness, noun Words nearby wasteful waste, waste away, wastebasket, wasted, waste disposal unit, wasteful, waste gate, waste heat recovery, wasteland, wastelot, Waste not, want not Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for wasteful The team argues that traditional barrel aging is a wasteful process, where you lose 20 percent of the product through evaporation, and one that is hard to replicate. Bespoken Spirits raises $2.6M in seed funding to combine machine learning and accelerated whiskey aging\|Frederic Lardinois\|October 7, 2020\|TechCrunch It will seem wasteful and barbaric compared to growing exactly the cuts of meat that we want, with no death or pollution involved. This Startup Is Growing Sushi-Grade Salmon From Cells in a Lab\|Vanessa Bates Ramirez\|September 16, 2020\|Singularity Hub The plastics industry is extraordinarily wastefulThe report summarizes four aspects of the industry’s wasteful ways. Big Oil’s hopes are pinned on plastics. It won’t end well.\|David Roberts\|September 4, 2020\|Vox Two-thirds agree that “government is usually inefficient and wasteful.” Hey, Boomers—Millennials Hate Your Partisan Crap\|Nick Gillespie\|July 10, 2014\|DAILY BEAST Though with budget cuts now looming, Congress is trying to gut some of those benefits while wasteful programs go untouched. The U.S. Military Is a Socialist Paradise\|Jacob Siegel\|April 21, 2014\|DAILY BEAST The most interesting part of eccentricity may be just how wasteful it usually is. The World According to an Eccentric\|Justin Green\|April 26, 2013\|DAILY BEAST If those 3s turn into 2's and 1's, then it will be clear that this whole program was a giant, wasteful mess. Solyndra 2.0\|Megan McArdle\|April 2, 2013\|DAILY BEAST In search of wasteful government spending, Eric Cantor sets his pants on fire. Sequester Misfire: Eric Cantor’s World of Warcraft Nonsense\|John Avlon\|February 25, 2013\|DAILY BEAST The first period resulted in a good deal of wasteful effort on both sides. Center Rush Rowland\|Ralph Henry Barbour The vexatious and wasteful conflict between naturalism and humanism is terminated. Reconstruction in Philosophy\|John Dewey In that wasteful day a timber-claim was not looked upon as valuable. The Valley of the Giants\|Peter B. Kyne The tax-exempt organizations have a vested interest in the oppressive, inequitable, and wasteful federal-income-tax system. The Invisible Government\|Dan Smoot To my mind, in the wasteful and blighting influences of slave labor there is a solemn and warning moral. The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII)\|John Greenleaf Whittier British Dictionary definitions for wasteful wasteful / (ˈweɪstfʊl) / adjective tending to waste or squander; extravagant causing waste, destruction, or devastation Derived forms of wasteful wastefully, adverbwastefulness, noun Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to wasteful lavish, careless, extravagant, destructive, reckless, profligate, cavalier, immoderate, improvident, incontinent, liberal, overdone, prodigal, profuse, ruinous, spendthrift, wanton, wild, unthrifty, dissipative
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