Thesaurus results for JETSAM

jetsam

noun

as in remnant

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Recent Examples of jetsam That Jia could make anything out of that flotsam and jetsam is astonishing, but his ability to not only recreate those time frames but craft all of it into a woozy, free-floating memory piece is miraculous. —

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2025 Full of the flotsam and jetsam of everyday affairs. —

Maya Singer, Vogue, 1 July 2024 Luke called the vultures back and reshot the scene with the jetsam of pestilence. —

Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023 For Kevin Nunez and his son Nathan, Native Americans who have long family history locked within the rugged and geologically active mountains, volunteering to help remove the flotsam and jetsam of tourists is a solemn duty. —

Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023 See All Example Sentences for jetsam

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Noun

While there are traces of the home’s original state, including remnants of wallpaper under the basement stairs, much has been changed in the Prevost family’s absence.

— Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026
Now, however, the team behind the new research believes the events are caused when a compact stellar remnant, like a black hole or a neutron star, slams into the universe's hottest class of star, massive stellar bodies called Wolf-Rayet stars.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 May 2026