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Florida found gold on the NHL scrap heap: Carter Verhaeghe, Gustav Forsling, Oliver-Ekman Larsson.
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Eric Duhatschek, The Athletic, 19 July 2024
In his stead at the moment is Ryan Yarbrough, the veteran finesse lefty who Cashman snapped up off the scrap heap after his release from the Blue Jays in March and has pitched well in all four of his starts and one long relief appearance.
—Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 31 May 2025
Postwar Keynesian dogma should follow postwar Mercantilist dogma onto the scrap heap of history.
—Nathan Lewis, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
External actuators were preferred in the early days of self-driving ground vehicles, when even the military, with all its resources, contented itself by grafting control technology onto existing vehicles, probably those that were ready for the scrap heap.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Dec. 2015
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Eric Duhatschek, The Athletic, 19 July 2024
In his stead at the moment is Ryan Yarbrough, the veteran finesse lefty who Cashman snapped up off the scrap heap after his release from the Blue Jays in March and has pitched well in all four of his starts and one long relief appearance.
—Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 31 May 2025
Postwar Keynesian dogma should follow postwar Mercantilist dogma onto the scrap heap of history.
—Nathan Lewis, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
External actuators were preferred in the early days of self-driving ground vehicles, when even the military, with all its resources, contented itself by grafting control technology onto existing vehicles, probably those that were ready for the scrap heap.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Dec. 2015
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“Scrap heap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrap%20heap. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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