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Recent Examples of jetsamFull 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 So flotsam or jetsam?—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for jetsam
No writing room can be pristine, but the detritus must not outweigh the buzzing, trembling atmosphere of solemn, serious work.
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Katie da Cunha Lewin
September 26,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025
Any kind of hard material attracts fauna in water, says Andrey Vedenin, a marine biologist at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Germany, who was not involved in the Mallows Bay study but co-authored a separate new paper that detailed wildlife thriving on war detritus in the Baltic Sea.
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Andrea Tamayo,
Scientific American,
25 Sep. 2025
Zach Buckley of Bleacher Report has proposed a bold new deal that would see the team offload All-Star combo guard Tyler Herro, an inconsistent-if-intriguing young role player, and some trade flotsam to the Portland Trail Blazers in an effort to really begin a roster retool in earnest.
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Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
The rest of the album is engrossing film-score flotsam.
In the village outside Lviv where the family members were killed, rescue workers dug through heaps of rubble.
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CNN Money,
CNN Money,
5 Oct. 2025
Although efforts continue, emergency responders say their mission has shifted from rescue to recovery after using thermal drones and other tools to search for anyone who might still be alive underneath the rubble, The New York Times reported.
But on that record, even the happiest songs had a kind of love-among-the-ruins feel, where the romanticism seemed hard-fought.
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Liz Schubauer,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
The colt doesn’t know the racetrack he was bred for – the pride of Ruidoso – lies in ruins for the second year running, gutted by floodwaters that turned familiar dirt into a sucking bog of mud.
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