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Recent Examples of jetsam
Full of the flotsam and jetsam of everyday affairs.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jetsam
Noun
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This stellar remnant is a white dwarf, the exhausted stellar core left over when a star around the same mass as the sun runs out of the fuel for nuclear fusion and sheds its outer layers.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 Jan. 2026
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Inside, the last clusters of conversation continued over champagne and the remnants of that improbable charcuterie spread.—
Rachel Marlowe,
Vanity Fair,
11 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
10 Jan. 2026
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Rescuers retrieved eight people alive and were searching for the missing still trapped after a huge mound of garbage and debris collapsed on them in the village of Binaliw in Cebu city, police said.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Urbano recovered fragments of the original arena and presented them under a ceiling, lit from above and covered with dead leaves and other plant detritus.—
Javier Montes,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
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It was designed to be incorporated into a three-dimensional exhibit where the canvas would blend into a foreground of clay, grass shrubbery, and the detritus of battle – all of it creating a you-were-there sense of reality.—
Richard Selcer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Through displaying the flotsam, Corinn Flaherty hopes to raise people’s awareness about marine pollution.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
25 Nov. 2025
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Without forward Jalen Johnson healthy, the Hawks failed to emerge out of the play-in tournament flotsam this past spring.—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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An additional 684 people have been found dead in the rubble strewn across Gaza during the same period.—
Wafaa Shurafa,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Jan. 2026
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Wilman González, left with a black eye from a blast, picked through rubble at home, surrounded by broken furniture.—
Regina Garcia Cano,
Fortune,
4 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Hot water is key to breaking down the oils, bacteria, and residue that towels often collect.—
Jamie Cuccinelli,
Martha Stewart,
12 Jan. 2026
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Too much can leave behind residue.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
12 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Caruso said the ruins should be torn down.—
Roger Vincent,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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In the ruins of the kitchen sat two cast-iron Le Creuset stew pots — the only survivors.—
Jonathan Taplin,
Rolling Stone,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Jetsam.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jetsam. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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