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Thankfully, city officials—prodded by tenants and small-business owners, clergy and homeowners, and, yes, some landlords—rejected advice to consign neighborhoods such as East Flatbush to history’s dustbin.
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Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
Guapa belongs to a special race which comes from the dustbins of Madrid.
—Tonya Blazio-Licorish, Footwear News, 29 Dec. 2025
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
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
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Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
Guapa belongs to a special race which comes from the dustbins of Madrid.
—Tonya Blazio-Licorish, Footwear News, 29 Dec. 2025
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
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
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“Dustbin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dustbin. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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