dross

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Recent Examples of dross Amongst all the dross and angst, Neil and Teddy try to talk everyone into investing in a baseball-card trading venture that might generate $500 in profits after a year. Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2025 But among the dross there gleam a few brilliant exceptions—deceptive, slippery books that defy the constraints of region and genre. Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025 The chipmaker is still raising cash and cutting costs though, as there seems to be quite a bit of dross. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Apr. 2025 Could the cotton dross, for instance, enhance a food product’s nutritional profile? Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019 After the dross of Bruno Lage, and the chaos of Lopetegui, Gary O'Neil came in and created unity. Steve Madeley, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025 Back in the Lage dross years, that's when. Steve Madeley, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025 Mixed in with the everyday dross are a few sparkly flecks of strangeness, curious anomalies that might be clues to a larger mystery. Lev Grossman, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024 Those, plus the endless Chinese dross, truly burned investors. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dross
Noun
  • In the first images of Read since her second trial, Fox News Digital exclusively captured the 45-year-old wheeling a garbage bin outside her Boston hotel.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 21 June 2025
  • Seal garbage tightly in bags, and rinse out bottles and cans before placing in recycling bins.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Chavez's action on that night left the crowd at Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix, Arizona, showering the ring with debris.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • After 9/11, undocumented immigrants were tasked with cleaning up the debris of the World Trade Center, as Karla Cornejo Villavicencio showed in her book The Undocumented Americans.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • North Korea has responded to previous balloon campaigns with fiery rhetoric and other shows of anger, and last year the country launched its own balloons across the border, dumping rubbish on various South Korean sites, including the presidential compound.
    Hyung-Jin Kim, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
  • They were were found beneath a pile of rubbish heaped just inside her front door, according to a police report released Wednesday.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • But despite the state’s best efforts to educate citizens on the importance of removing bird feeders, trash and food from yards, human-bear interactions continue to rise, showcasing a growing concern that bears are becoming less afraid of humans.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2025
  • The various entities funded bear-proof trash systems for people living in towns near the national parks and strung electric fences around tempting fruit orchards.
    Christine Peterson, Vox, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Who wouldn’t want content that’s relevant to their unique interests instead of a mess of irrelevant junk?
    Andrew Luttrell, Time, 24 June 2025
  • Every doctor who has pushed junk science on vulnerable kids should be held responsible.
    Kristen Waggoner, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • This more comprehensive rating offers the same water resistance, but now adds protection from dust and other small particles.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • Then, at the end of each day, Bridges returns to his private quarters, relieves himself, and showers the dust and blood from his body.
    Simon Parkin, The Atlantic, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • On Wednesday, emergency workers pulled more bodies from the rubble of a nine-story Kyiv apartment building demolished by a Russian attack earlier this week, raising the death toll from the strike on the capital to 28.
    James Jordan, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
  • Israeli flags stand amid rubble and destruction in a residential area of Rishon LeZion, Israel on June 14, 2025.
    Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025

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“Dross.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dross. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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