garbage

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Recent Examples of garbage These pesky rodents are taking over Britain’s second-biggest city after garbage collectors unhappy with their pay went on strike weeks ago. Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2025 Mountains of garbage are said to be visible from space and people have complained of seeing rats as big as cats in the refuse. Arkansas Online, 8 Apr. 2025 With the parent club, Davison has been stuck behind Derrick White, Jrue Holiday and Payton Pritchard on the backcourt depth chart, limiting him to 15 mostly garbage-time appearances this season. Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 12 Apr. 2025 On September 30, garbage bags containing Black’s body parts washed up in Galveston Bay. Nick Tabor, Curbed, 11 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for garbage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for garbage
Noun
  • There’s even been a rare dose of reality-style drama, as when contestant Shuai Wang accidentally tossed teammate Henry Lu’s entire mise en place setup in the trash — removing all the pickles from a dish in a pickle-centric challenge and sending Henry to the bottom.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 1 May 2025
  • Tens of thousands of dollars in artwork may have ended up in the trash during a town hall renovation in the Netherlands.
    Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Faced with a phrase that has no inherent meaning, the AI Overview still makes a good-faith effort to answer the user's request and draw some plausible explanation out of troll-worthy nonsense.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025
  • None of this ‘support the teams from your country in Europe’ nonsense.
    Andy Mitten, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • For those with patience to keep them free of debris and properly chlorinated (or, more realistically, the funds to hire someone), there’s probably just enough time to close on one of these homes before a mid-season heat wave.
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The lot was activated because of the magnitude of storm debris that had to be removed from the basins.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Among the debris were bricks, tins of paint, stones, and other assorted rubbish.
    Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The effort has so far transformed more than 10 tons of flowers from would-be rubbish into fragrant souvenirs.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The European Space Agency estimates that there are approximately 130 million pieces of space junk from the over 6,800 successful rocket launches that have occurred since 1957.
    Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
  • Raised in the United Kingdom, Tiller has made a career in two tracks: Studying respiratory medicine and debunking junk science.
    Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Use it to find and retrieve stray nuts or bolts in any crevice.
    Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Vegetables like broccoli, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, kale and asparagus are also included in most low-carb diets—as are eggs, cheese, Greek yogurt and nuts like walnuts, peanuts, macadamia nuts and pistachios.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The optional speakers can run on battery power for up to eight hours (recharged via USB-C port), and are rated to IP54 dust and water resistance.
    John Archer, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • By analyzing the colors and structures within the dust cocoons, scientists infer the composition, density and temperature of the gas and dust — crucial insights into the conditions necessary for stars to ignite. 5.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Living Better From blah to buoyant, these skills can improve your mood and optimism Why aim towards the ear?
    Andrea Muraskin, NPR, 19 Apr. 2025
  • American Airlines is giving Midwesterners a new way to escape the winter blahs.
    Brandon Withrow, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2025

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“Garbage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garbage. Accessed 8 May. 2025.

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