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- noun Plural form of
prodigal .
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Examples
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My article on how to love your prodigals was my outline.
12 ways to love your wayward children. What would you add to the list? - 22 Words 2008
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And there will be other interesting examinations for newcomers and prodigals.
Alastair Cook 'honoured' by England one-day captaincy role 2011
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So the converts and the prodigals will contaminate the data set.
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So the converts and the prodigals will contaminate the data set.
More on Fundamentalist Divorce, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Within AA groups themselves, people who leave the program are ostracized by their former "soul mates" who predict -- some might even say they hope for -- the prodigals' failure and demise.
Stanton Peele: AA is Ruining the World Stanton Peele 2011
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And there will be other interesting examinations for newcomers and prodigals.
Alastair Cook 'honoured' by England one-day captaincy role 2011
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But in England they return, not as prodigals, but as outcasts still, as vagrants and pariahs, to be doubted and flouted by their country brethren, to sleep in jails and casual wards, or under the hedges, and to live the Lord knows how.
HOPS AND HOPPERS 2010
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Broon conspicuously and spectatcularly failed to halt the greed/credit overdrive culture because in a generation of prodigals, thrift would be entirely unpopular.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2009
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Broon conspicuously and spectatcularly failed to halt the greed/credit overdrive culture because in a generation of prodigals, thrift would be entirely unpopular.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2009
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Thank you for teaching us the power of forgiveness and for touching the heart of the prodigals in our lives.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Devotional Stories for Women Susan M. Heim 2009
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