dross

noun

ˈdräs How to pronounce dross (audio)
Definition of drossnext
as in garbage
discarded or useless material get rid of the dross before closing up the shop

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Recent Examples of dross And we are asked to make the leap ourselves—men were also sacrificed as dross. — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026 The downside of all of these riches is the dross accompanying the gold. — Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026 What tabloid dross tends to obscure is his impressive career—first as a star dancer at the New York City Ballet, then as a roving choreographer of complex, dynamic work that is rooted in balletic conventions but not restricted by them. — Sara Krolewski, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2026 These meteors are the dross shed by the comet 169P/NEAT, whose path Earth crosses at this time each year. — Joe Rao, Space.com, 16 July 2025 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 Many experience mental health challenges on top of the physical toll of making something out of the unending dross Kantamanto is pummeled with. — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dross
  1. garbage
  2. debris
  3. rubbish
  4. trash
  5. junk
  6. dust
  7. rubble
Noun
  • Take down bird feeders, empty water features, add fencing or other wildlife barriers, and prevent access to garbage bins.
    — Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 22 July 2026
  • This buildup occurs substantially in the brain, like garbage piling up when the trash collectors stop coming.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of garbage
Noun
  • Try to find a place that will block blowing or falling debris.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 16 July 2026
  • The largest of the debris aprons covers 50 square miles (130 square kilometers), which would be large enough to bury a small city or a large town.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 July 2026
Definition of debris
Noun
  • Only construction waste will be accepted at the landfill such as, brush and rubbish, concrete, brick, rock, wood, paper, plastics, cardboard and roofing shingles and tiles.
    — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 July 2026
  • So where does the rubbish come from?
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 8 June 2026
Definition of rubbish
Noun
  • The case broke open when a Grapevine detective obtained a covert DNA sample from soda bottles in Brown’s trash in Colorado.
    — Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 July 2026
  • When the case was reopened, detectives worked with the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado, where Brown was living at the time, to obtain DNA from soda bottles found in his trash.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
Definition of trash
Noun
  • Low interest rates let venture capitalists fund nonsense web businesses and let banks provide junk loans to borrowers with terrible credit.
    — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026
  • The crash could reveal new information about what happens in the immediate aftermath of an impact on the lunar surface and offer insights into the hazards of errant space junk to the moon.
    — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 20 July 2026
Definition of junk
Noun
  • The meteorite had a strong sulfur-like odor and black fragments, debris and dust covered the room.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 July 2026
  • The molecular cloud and its dark lanes of gas and dust, the raw materials for star construction, are at the left of the DECam image.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of dust
Noun
  • On Saturday, rescue crews aided by dogs and detectors found signs of life, confirming that at least one survivor was still trapped beneath the rubble.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026
  • There are heart-wrenching reports of people trying to dig survivors out of the rubble with their hands, with dozens of children suffering amputations because they could not be reached in time.
    — Mark Weisbrot, Twin Cities, 19 July 2026
Definition of rubble

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