dross

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Recent Examples of dross 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 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 But failure—the end point of the story of generational decay, of gold exchanged for dross—is not inevitable. Fergus McIntosh, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dross
Noun
  • Any actor that’s been working for over three decades has a giant garbage bag filled of pilots.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2025
  • Bears are generally solitary, shy animals but are food-driven and often find easy meals in garbage bins.
    Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Species: The most valuable trees are hardy, durable, highly adaptable and won’t drop debris like nuts or pods everywhere.
    LEW SICHELMAN, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025
  • On both occasions, the rocket's upper stage shut down its engines prematurely and the vehicle lost control, breaking apart in the upper atmosphere and spreading debris near the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
    John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • And oftentimes, these cheap items end up as rubbish.
    Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2025
  • This never got past the drawing board stage, but the idea kept cropping up again and again with many variations on a circular shape and performance that spanned from interesting to rubbish.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Hefty Ultra Strong with Fabuloso Watermelon Scent The Hefty brand just made trash day a whole lot sweeter!
    Adam Mills, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
  • Officers eventually tracked down Figueroa in the building's trash room, and drove him out with pepper spray, according to the affidavit.
    Chris Spargo, People.com, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • That rule would have broadly banned hidden charges as part of former President Joe Biden’s wide-ranging crackdown on junk fees that drive up costs without providing visible benefits.
    Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 13 May 2025
  • Such instruments, however, are not available to monitor the skies above the remote regions of the world's oceans where most space junk and meteorites crash to Earth or burn up in the atmosphere.
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Spacecraft are assembled in cleanrooms, which are highly specialized facilities engineered to maintain exceptionally low levels of dust and microorganisms.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 20 May 2025
  • Exhaust Fan Covers A lot of dust and debris can secretly accumulate on an exhaust fan cover.
    Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • At the charity kitchen set up atop piles of rubble in Beit Lahia, dozens of Palestinians stood in a crowded line, pressing against one another, holding empty pots and plastic containers high in the air in hopes of receiving vegetable soup.
    MOHAMMAD JAHJOUH, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
  • People buried under rubble after Israel targets Hamas leader in hospital strike 00:58 3.
    Jade Walker, CNN Money, 14 May 2025

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“Dross.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dross. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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