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Recent Examples of dustbin
The misguided hope, which many European leaders have held since 2016, that Europe can simply wait out the Trump presidency must be consigned to the dustbin of history.
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Norbert Röttgen, Foreign Affairs, 22 Nov. 2024
There’s no need to push aside furniture for a thorough clean as this style lies completely flat to slide under beds, sofas, and dining tables, thanks to its front-facing dustbin.
—Maggie Horton, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
The 15-ounce dustbin pulls free by pressing a lever and opens by pinching the finger indents in the top.
—PCMAG, 28 Oct. 2024
Restoration Games specializes in rescuing great games like this from the dustbins of history.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
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Norbert Röttgen, Foreign Affairs, 22 Nov. 2024
There’s no need to push aside furniture for a thorough clean as this style lies completely flat to slide under beds, sofas, and dining tables, thanks to its front-facing dustbin.
—Maggie Horton, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
The 15-ounce dustbin pulls free by pressing a lever and opens by pinching the finger indents in the top.
—PCMAG, 28 Oct. 2024
Restoration Games specializes in rescuing great games like this from the dustbins of history.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dustbin
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Well, many of those objects - or fragments of them - are still there, languishing above Earth in an ever-expanding space junkyard.Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
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The man was standing with his back to the junkyard.Jamie Quatro, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
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Even a small repair can keep an appliance, piece of furniture or other item out of the landfill while also helping someone on a tight budget.Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025
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The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission approved a permit March 17, 2023, for a 12-acre expansion of the landfill in Tontitown owned by WM Inc. for its Class IV landfill space.Tom Sissom, arkansasonline.com, 8 Jan. 2025
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Also plugging into the idea of tourism as education, marine biologist Cormac McGinley runs leave-no-trace fossil discovery walks and tours of the Burren’s lunar-like landscape, which take in sea caves, ancient middens, and color-popping anemones.Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 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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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 22 Jan. 2025.
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