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Recent Examples of junkyard
Left unchecked, the junkyard of orbital debris can pose dangers to both crewed and uncrewed space missions, as well as astronauts on the space station.
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
The great bikes of that all-analog era seemed to slowly fade away into collections - or junkyards.
—William Roberson, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
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
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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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
The great bikes of that all-analog era seemed to slowly fade away into collections - or junkyards.
—William Roberson, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
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
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for junkyard
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Of those hides, only about 40 percent, or around 134 million, get saved from the landfill for leather use.Jennifer Bringle, WWD, 12 Dec. 2024
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Food that ends up in landfills decomposes anaerobically and gives off methane–which over the 20 years after its release is more than 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in warming our climate.Marianne Krasny, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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As for Harris, she will be tasked as vice president with the role of presiding over Congress' certification of Trump's victory on January 6 of next year—four years to the day since the riot at the Capitol that seemed, at the time, destined to send her opponent to the dustbin of history.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2024
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The auto clean process includes cleaning not only the dustbin, but also the brush, tube, and the HEPA filter.Terri Williams, Architectural Digest, 2 Dec. 2024
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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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Fiji has more than 330 islands, one sanitary landfill, and two municipal dumps.By Aryn Baker/Lautoka, Fiji , TIME, 3 July 2024
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Other materials might need to be sent to a hazardous waste landfill that has double the plastic lining in place as a typical sanitary landfill in order to protect groundwater from anything that might otherwise leach into it.Justine Calma, The Verge, 3 Feb. 2024
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“Junkyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junkyard. Accessed 9 Jan. 2025.
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