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Recent Examples of jetsamThat 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
Yi’s studio is filled with the remnants of her works.
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Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
29 May 2026
There are several Star City tourism companies that offer packages to take an excursion to Moscow or have an extended stay in this strange remnant of another age.
Videos published online and geolocated by NBC News showed a blazing fire inside the airport, surrounded by debris and heavy smoke as people ran for cover.
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Chantal Da Silva,
NBC news,
4 June 2026
Remove any loose bits of food and debris from the smoker and removable components.
In Literature and Painting Playset, 2025, a Cartman-like figure wearing a beret splashes daubs of paint on the screen while a female figure in pilgrim dress delivers a long, disjointed monologue patched together by Kokopeli from Quora posts, art history texts, and other online detritus.
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Theo Belci,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
The great piles of detritus in the street had completely vanished.
The flotsam-and-jetsam nature of their 1630s coming to America remains a far more typical origin story than what those who cherish tidy arrival stories might want to believe.
Many before Labīd and many after him across the long arc of Arabic, have begun their poems by standing upon ruins.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2026
Sri Lanka, off the southeastern coast of India, packs lush tea plantations, ancient Buddhist ruins, biodiversity and pristine beaches into one of the most affordable trips on this list — though its popularity is rising fast.