variants
or 86
as in to discard
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
decided to eighty-six his birth name the minute he arrived in Hollywood
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Recent Examples of eighty-six
In one case, the daughter of a deceased follower recovered four hundred thousand dollars despite the fact that her mother had signed a pledge, at the age of eighty-six, promising not to seek a refund of her donations.
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E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Last year, at the age of eighty-six, Hopkins appeared as the Roman emperor Vespasian on TV, in Those About to Die, the thrust of his performance being to treat the show’s title with scorn.
—Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
Markey would be eighty years old if re-elected and eighty-six at the end of his third term in 2026.
—Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Last year, at the age of eighty-six, Hopkins appeared as the Roman emperor Vespasian on TV, in Those About to Die, the thrust of his performance being to treat the show’s title with scorn.
—Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
Markey would be eighty years old if re-elected and eighty-six at the end of his third term in 2026.
—Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eighty-six
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Constructing his earliest works from castoff two-by-fours, Mosley soon progressed to carving small figures and from there to using a chisel and gauge to shape larger abstract forms from fallen logs of hickory, cherry, and sycamore discarded by the city’s parks department.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
8 Mar. 2026
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Strain into a rocks glass and garnish with drops of Angostura Bitters and a lemon peel, discarded.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
7 Mar. 2026
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This Jim Crow-era murder musical is the best kind of smart filmmaking, a barn-burner about religion and art and race that ditches the speeches for scenes of action and romance.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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Gooden ditched his internal combustion engine vehicle over a year ago and said days like these reinforce that decision.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 Mar. 2026
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The fiery atmospheric reentries of satellites would be a source of pollution, too, dumping significant amounts of vaporized metal and plastic into our planet’s fragile upper atmosphere.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
6 Mar. 2026
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The volunteer cleaning teams found sofas, mattresses and other items dumped illegally on the streets and behind businesses.—
Staff report,
Daily News,
6 Mar. 2026
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That’s language more commonly used to unload credenzas on Facebook Marketplace than to solicit Broadway backers.—
Andrew Zucker,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Mar. 2026
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And frankly, where was this courage in 2023 when Payton unloaded on Wilson at Detroit?—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
7 Mar. 2026
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The markets lose millions, maybe more, each time somebody in the press asks President Trump a question.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 Mar. 2026
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For a few minutes, Hollywood lost its collective mind.—
Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Eighty-six.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eighty-six. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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