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Recent Examples of junkyard
Well, many of those objects - or fragments of them - are still there, languishing above Earth in an ever-expanding space junkyard.
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
The man was standing with his back to the junkyard.
—Jamie Quatro, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
The children found the mercury in a jar at a nearby junkyard.
—Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2024
That could be yet another disruption to an automotive industry that relies on cars mostly heading to the junkyard after 15 years.
—James Morris, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2024
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
The man was standing with his back to the junkyard.
—Jamie Quatro, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
The children found the mercury in a jar at a nearby junkyard.
—Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2024
That could be yet another disruption to an automotive industry that relies on cars mostly heading to the junkyard after 15 years.
—James Morris, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for junkyard
Noun
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Plastic jugs are often not recycled & end up in landfills.—
Hilary Tetenbaum,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
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Disheartened and frustrated, Howells rushed to the landfill—roughly the size of a football field—only to realize that recovering his hardware crypto wallet was nearly impossible.—
Vinamrata Chaturvedi,
Quartz,
12 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The large dustbin is easy to remove and clean, and the three-part set-up was quick and intuitive.—
Alida Nugent,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 Jan. 2025
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The dustbin, however, is on the smaller side at 0.1-gallon.—
Brenda Stolyar,
WIRED,
29 Nov. 2024
Noun
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This behavior could help explain why historical Florida manatee populations that were hunted by humans are absent from middens and rarely mentioned in historical accounts.—
Beth Brady,
Sun Sentinel,
21 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
Noun
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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 19 Feb. 2025.
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