kitchen midden

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for kitchen midden
Noun
  • Fiji has more than 330 islands, one sanitary landfill, and two municipal dumps.
    By Aryn Baker/Lautoka, Fiji , TIME, 3 July 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • And the costly orbiters, once out of film, went into the celestial junkyard.
    William J. Broad, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • The last day of the shoot was by the bonfire, and all of that was put together from the junkyard.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • The 205's novel dustbin is enormous, taking up most of the robot's back half.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 23 June 2025
  • Other criteria evaluated were battery life and dustbin capacity.
    Toni Sutton, People.com, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • And while tech companies have taken steps to extract and recycle that gold for years, much of it still ends up in landfills.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 26 June 2025
  • Billions of dollars in returns—many of which end up in landfills—are a symptom of a deeper problem: digital discovery isn’t built for how people think or shop.
    Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • The musket balls were found together near a midden by the metal detectorist, cultural heritage coordinator Anthony Simmons said in the release, meaning a member of the First Nations could have brought the shot belt there and then discarded it.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 14 May 2025
  • The midden is a testament to the volume of shellfish eaten by Hoabinhians.
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Palm Beach County owns its waste disposal infrastructure, including six transfer stations through a special district established by the state Legislature.
    Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2025
  • Baltimore’s 2020 Recycling and Solid Waste Management Master Plan determined that eliminating WTE from Baltimore’s waste management process would cost taxpayers roughly $100 million to expand local landfill space and build transfer stations to truck more local waste out of state.
    Mary Urban, Baltimore Sun, 6 Mar. 2025
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“Kitchen midden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kitchen%20midden. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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