discards 1 of 2

plural of discard
as in culls
something separated from a group or lot for not being as good as the others toss all of your discards in the garbage

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discards

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of discard

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Recent Examples of discards
Verb
Marysol and Alexia take Julia, Lisa, and an unusually dour Adriana, who is moping about her birthday and how society discards women of a certain age. Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025 Shredding high-voltage storage systems discards valuable resources. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2025 The body discards the mRNA after it's used. Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for discards
Verb
  • Wednesday-as-Enid dumps Bruno for being a cheating loser; Enid-as-Wednesday realizes that Wednesday’s bad behavior has come from a place of loyalty and love.
    Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
  • At the end of each week, the truck dumps the freezer’s contents at a waste-storage facility.
    Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In it, Jackson Lamb (Oldman), River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) and the rest of the MI5 rejects are on the case — and a bit on the defense.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Cars pull into the courtyard; someone unloads a television from the back of one of them.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Hold each other’s hands and inhale slowly for 4 seconds, hold for 7 and exhale for 8 seconds together.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This should have created a GRB lasting mere seconds, however.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Dual Front mode Rainbow Six Siege ditches turn-taking to let players attack and defend simultaneously.
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Its Foamy pad ditches the air in favor of all-foam construction.
    Wes Siler, Outside, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • An education nonprofit loses funding — a child loses after-school care.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The deeper the water, the sooner a vehicle loses traction on the road.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • No More Harkening back to the classic storyline which introduced the world to Kingpin, this new card features art from Aniekan Udofia extremely reminiscent of the panel in which Spider-Man abandons his costume.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Escalating military pressure abandons the living hostages to their fate and leaves the bodies of those already dead buried forever in Gaza’s rubble.
    Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 2025

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“Discards.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discards. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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