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Recent Examples of dustbin
And CDs are in the dustbin of history.
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Marc Silver,
NPR,
19 Apr. 2026
Thankfully, city officials—prodded by tenants and small-business owners, clergy and homeowners, and, yes, some landlords—rejected advice to consign neighborhoods such as East Flatbush to history’s dustbin.
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Michael Powell,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
The auto clean process includes cleaning not only the dustbin, but also the brush, tube, and the HEPA filter.
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Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
23 Dec. 2025
And does a particular level of disuse have to be reached for a word to be dropped into the lexical dustbin?
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Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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Marc Silver,
NPR,
19 Apr. 2026
Thankfully, city officials—prodded by tenants and small-business owners, clergy and homeowners, and, yes, some landlords—rejected advice to consign neighborhoods such as East Flatbush to history’s dustbin.
—
Michael Powell,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
The auto clean process includes cleaning not only the dustbin, but also the brush, tube, and the HEPA filter.
—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
23 Dec. 2025
And does a particular level of disuse have to be reached for a word to be dropped into the lexical dustbin?
—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for dustbin
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dustbin
Noun
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Crews are seen pouring water on a massive junkyard fire in Opa-locka on Tuesday, May 26, 2026.
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About 125 people in apartments east of the junkyard were evacuated.
Noun
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Transporting such equipment over long distances can be expensive, causing some materials to be diverted into lower-value recycling streams or even sent to landfills.
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Today, more than half of plastic waste ends up in landfills, and less than one-tenth is recycled globally.
Noun
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But this is the first time archaeologists have actually unearthed a midden with evidence that people added to it regularly for so many generations.
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Now, researchers plan to extend their investigations to nearby early settlement sites to determine if Culasawani is a midden or muddle.
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But Minnesota’s salary dump of Julius Randle last Monday took a chunk out of Brooklyn’s cap space and Chicago’s.
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Trae Young, who was drastically better than Acuff as a freshman at Oklahoma and made an All-NBA team, got traded this season in what was essentially a salary-cap dump.
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“Dustbin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dustbin. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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