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a lot of garbage/nonsense
noun phrase
informal
: something very foolish
I think their ideas are a lot of garbage/nonsense.
Examples of a lot of garbage/nonsense in a Sentence
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There’s been a lot of nonsense between the end of the Super Bowl and today, but the two parties are, effectively, in the same place.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2024
Lots of equipment, food and packaging, plus animals and porters, means a lot of garbage.
—Alton C. Byers, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
And as it was getting cleared of the invasive tall grasses, a lot of garbage that had accumulated over the years was revealed.
—Christina Mayo, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2024
Not a lot of garbage time available to bloody rookies.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
That there’s basically a lot of nonsense that was cobbled together for the story, and the only thing saving Inside Man from being a complete failure is the performances.
—Andy Meek, BGR, 3 Nov. 2022
Well, this is a conservative activist who went pretty far down the rabbit hole of conspiratorial thinking and apocalyptic thinking, and was encouraged by then President Trump to believe a lot of nonsense about what had happened in the 2020 election.
—ABC News, 27 Mar. 2022
Oh, there’s a lot of nonsense that gets passed around at the table.
—The Editors, Field & Stream, 10 Oct. 2020
The voting public is always asked to put up with a lot of nonsense during campaigns.
—Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2020
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“A lot of garbage/nonsense.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a%20lot%20of%20garbage%2Fnonsense. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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