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
The chipmaker is still raising cash and cutting costs though, as there seems to be quite a bit of dross.
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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
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
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With the welcome citywide expansion of organic collection (brown bins) joining with paper (green bins) and metal, glass and plastic (blue bins), the remaining black bag garbage will be made of nonrecyclable items like those same thin plastics that Sims rejects that are used for wrapping or bags.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
8 June 2025
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Patients may pass tissue and dispose of it in the garbage or toilet.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
6 June 2025
Noun
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The planet-wide dust storms are so fierce that the debris often does not settle for months at a time.—
Alex Morris,
Rolling Stone,
15 June 2025
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In Lyme and Old Saybrook, there is little flooding but reports of tremendous amounts of debris flowing into Long Island Sound.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
14 June 2025
Noun
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And oftentimes, these cheap items end up as rubbish.—
Ramishah Maruf,
CNN Money,
16 Apr. 2025
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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
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Your town may have a trash pickup walk, a Thanksgiving turkey trot or a stroll to historic sites.—
Elizabeth Passarella,
New York Times,
6 June 2025
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My trash fee could exceed $2,000 per year — for service that used to cost nothing.—
Steven Cordova,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 June 2025
Noun
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And there are the old pitfalls of the technology that anyone above a certain age remembers: blurry pages, junk faxes that pile up and faxes getting sent to the wrong number.—
Tamsin Gable,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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In 2018, inspired by this culture of bricolage, curator Danni Friedman and designer Jean Lee gathered a group of designers in Havana for a ten-day workshop, turning them loose in an old shipyard factory filled with clay, concrete mix, scrap metal, and assorted junk.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
Noun
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Vacuum, dust, or wipe surfaces and floors so the area is fresh for the next step: reorganizing.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
12 June 2025
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On Monday during a heated (fictional) confrontation with Bella, former WWE Women’s Champion Liv Morgan referenced the returning superstar’s divorce before their interaction quickly moved on to a physical dust up in the ring.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
12 June 2025
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Responding firefighters helped remove the injured man from the rubble.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
5 June 2025
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The pair found the artifact in a pile of rubble near former infantry barracks.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
4 June 2025
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“Dross.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dross. Accessed 21 Jun. 2025.
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