waste product
noun
: useless material that is produced when making something else
a hazardous waste product
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Unlike musical theatre or opera, where the music often advances the plot or at least has some kind of narrative content, the cinema of pop-and-rock stardom extrudes fake songs incidentally, almost as a waste product.
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Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
The bacterium produces urea as a waste product, which can then react with calcium to produce calcium carbonate crystals.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 5 Feb. 2026
With this problem in mind, Mahdiyeh Mohammadzadeh and colleagues at Finland's University of Oulu looked to the pine bark that is already available as a waste product from the forestry industry.
—New Atlas, 21 Jan. 2026
These are blended with another spirit made from the waste product left over from the distillery’s Brunette Coffee Liqueur, the original opaque version, which is distilled into a third clear spirit.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 9 Jan. 2026
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Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
The bacterium produces urea as a waste product, which can then react with calcium to produce calcium carbonate crystals.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 5 Feb. 2026
With this problem in mind, Mahdiyeh Mohammadzadeh and colleagues at Finland's University of Oulu looked to the pine bark that is already available as a waste product from the forestry industry.
—New Atlas, 21 Jan. 2026
These are blended with another spirit made from the waste product left over from the distillery’s Brunette Coffee Liqueur, the original opaque version, which is distilled into a third clear spirit.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 9 Jan. 2026
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“Waste product.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/waste%20product. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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