derelictions

plural of dereliction

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for derelictions
Noun
  • How does the relative length of our haunting reflect our collective moral strengths and weaknesses?
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Looking at the current state of the roster, there are not many major weaknesses.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Putin said Ukraine’s armed forces had a grave lack of manpower and desertions, while Russia had enough soldiers.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This generalized recognition of our nation’s foundational sins is certainly welcome, it’s just not geared toward a particular point.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2025
  • And my mom used to say, your sins will find you out.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Not of any one person, but of Florida with its beauty and its faults, and the imagined communities of young men who could inhabit it.
    Vogue, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
  • By scouring two years of police body cam footage, Gandbhir hoped to turn a tool intended to protect police into a tool that exposes their faults.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Halloween’s history, from tricks to treats Halloween is rooted in the ancient Celtic ritual of Samhain, marking the harvest and coming winter – and few know the shortcomings of the cold more than Minnesotans.
    Chris Kenning, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Various studies have proved that popular commercial VPNs have alarming shortcomings.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As was Matthiessen’s self-awareness about his own moral failings.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • So [in the film], there’s this sort of notion that, if a movie star kind of represents us in all our failings and humanity, what does that mean exactly?
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2025
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“Derelictions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/derelictions. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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