wastebasket
noun
waste·bas·ket
ˈwās(t)-ˌba-skət 
: a receptacle for refuse and especially for wastepaper
called also wastepaper basket
Examples of wastebasket in a Sentence
She tossed the wrapper into the wastebasket.
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The Architect’s Classroom features stools that raise and lower, adjustable drafting tables and a wastebasket unfathomably made up of 1,020 solder joints.
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Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2024
When her creations meet their demise, the result doesn’t necessarily wind up in a wastebasket.
—Paul Nicolaus, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
This trend should be in the same wastebasket as mullets, microwave dinners and inflated lips.
—Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2024
At the end of a hallway, the final office on the left contained a desk, a wastebasket and a television.
—David Ingram, NBC News, 3 Aug. 2023
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Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2024
When her creations meet their demise, the result doesn’t necessarily wind up in a wastebasket.
—Paul Nicolaus, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
This trend should be in the same wastebasket as mullets, microwave dinners and inflated lips.
—Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2024
At the end of a hallway, the final office on the left contained a desk, a wastebasket and a television.
—David Ingram, NBC News, 3 Aug. 2023
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wastebasket
noun
waste·bas·ket
ˈwās(t)-ˌbas-kət
: an open container for trash and especially wastepaper
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