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Recent Examples of transfer station
During the shutdown, passengers on the Red and Green lines were encouraged to catch a Yellow Line train running from San Francisco to Antioch at a transfer station.
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Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
City officials declined to give cost estimates for the sorting facility or transfer station.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2025
The company alleges that union members are blocking their access to trash pickup locations and preventing trucks from entering or leaving their transfer stations.
—Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 26 Aug. 2025
Once there, the bird visited a garbage and recycling transfer station run by the company Recology.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2025
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Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
City officials declined to give cost estimates for the sorting facility or transfer station.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2025
The company alleges that union members are blocking their access to trash pickup locations and preventing trucks from entering or leaving their transfer stations.
—Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 26 Aug. 2025
Once there, the bird visited a garbage and recycling transfer station run by the company Recology.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transfer station
Noun
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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
Noun
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The car had been in France, spending an extended amount of time in a junkyard and on top of a mall.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 Jan. 2026
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Decades ago, rangers and local volunteers transformed this area—once a junkyard—into a healthy 70-acre marsh with beavers, otters, turtles, and numerous avian species.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The auto clean process includes cleaning not only the dustbin, but also the brush, tube, and the HEPA filter.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
23 Dec. 2025
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And does a particular level of disuse have to be reached for a word to be dropped into the lexical dustbin?—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Archival added that rescue efforts had been hampered by the fact that any sparks created by digging machinery could ignite methane gas emitted by the landfill, per the outlet.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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At the landfill site dozens of rescuers scrambled overnight in search of people trapped.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
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Human poop was found in a 30-inch-deep midden inside the Cave of the Dead Children, according to a study published Oct. 22 in the journal.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
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Known to be pack rats, Allegheny woodrats will store large piles of food, called middens, in their dens.—
Karl Schneider,
IndyStar,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Transfer station.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transfer%20station. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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