2025年2月28日 星期五

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Think You're Booked? Think Again.

Deirdre Flanagan, a lifelong Democrat, wanted to splurge on the presidential inauguration.
(By David Nakamura, The Washington Post)


Should we splurge on a big one, settle for s smaller one...

Mobile Internet. This is the greatest splurge, and the greatest convenience, in my entire portfolio: a Sierra Compass 597 cellular modem from Sprint. It's a tiny, 2.5-inch stick of plastic that slides into the MacBook Air's USB slot and gets me online at impressively high speeds.

Definition

splurge 
verb [I or T] INFORMAL
to spend a lot of money on buying goods, especially luxury goods; splash out:
I feel like splurging (out) on a new dress.

splurge 
noun [C] INFORMAL

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  1. While disgruntled investors have wiped more than $40 billion off the value of Exxon Mobil since its splurge on the gas giant XTO Energy, it would be wrongheaded to assume that XTO has zero value, Breakingviews says.

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