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Recent Examples of dustbin
The Trump-Vance campaign has plucked the WCTU’s tools from the dustbin of history to demonize immigrants.
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Elizabeth Marshall / Made By History, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
When Abe, the driving force behind the Quad, unexpectedly resigned, in September 2007 (before becoming prime minister again in 2012), his successor, Yasuo Fukuda, formally consigned the Quad to the dustbin of history.
—Kevin Rudd, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2021
The cordless vacuum also has a detachable dustbin that can be emptied with the press of a button.
—Clara McMahon, People.com, 20 Oct. 2024
The HoloLens 2 now joins Magic Leap in the dustbin of history.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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Elizabeth Marshall / Made By History, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
When Abe, the driving force behind the Quad, unexpectedly resigned, in September 2007 (before becoming prime minister again in 2012), his successor, Yasuo Fukuda, formally consigned the Quad to the dustbin of history.
—Kevin Rudd, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2021
The cordless vacuum also has a detachable dustbin that can be emptied with the press of a button.
—Clara McMahon, People.com, 20 Oct. 2024
The HoloLens 2 now joins Magic Leap in the dustbin of history.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dustbin
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Behind the gates of his Los Angeles junkyard, protected by steel fencing and razor wire, German immigrant and businessman Rudi Klein spent 40 years amassing an incredible array of rare European classic cars.Howard Walker, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2024
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There are parts of Usher’s bubble-gum dystopia that help Mystery Men still feel novel 22 years after release, like the villainous goons obsessed with disco, Tom Waits’s junkyard of nonlethal inventions, and Michael Bay playing a decent human being.Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
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Food is often cut off from oxygen when it's piled up in a landfill.London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Nov. 2024
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In the Wednesday complaint, the county alleged that the companies promoted their bottles as recyclable but knew most of them would end up in landfills and that they cannot be meaningfully recycled without environmental harms.Zack Budryk, The Hill, 1 Nov. 2024
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Although the bones of fish, cattle, sheep and pig were pulled out of the middens (halos of garbage dumped from the huts above), there was no evidence of human casualties.Franz Lidz, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
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The land has been largely untouched for centuries — the Mocama and the Guale tribes had a presence on neighboring St. Simons Island, and while there is little information about Indigenous groups on Little St. Simons, shell middens suggest there was travel between the two.Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
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Just four years later, Howard found himself being traded away in a salary dump.Tim Bontemps, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
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New York City is gradually transforming its largest trash dump, Fresh Kills on Staten Island, into a vast expanse of parkland and restored natural areas.Andres Viglucci, miamiherald, 15 June 2017
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“Dustbin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dustbin. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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