jetsam

noun

Definition of jetsamnext
as in remnant

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Recent Examples of jetsam And the Heat’s supporting players at the moment are far better than the flotsam and jetsam that currently are with the Bucks. — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2026 Sure, when the pace got really fast, many of these people faded into the background and became the ride’s early flotsam and jetsam. — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 28 Sep. 2025 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 Luke called the vultures back and reshot the scene with the jetsam of pestilence. — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023 See All Example Sentences for jetsam
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jetsam
  1. remnant
  2. debris
  3. detritus
  4. flotsam
  5. rubble
  6. residue
  7. ruins
Noun
  • Dolly's remnants also bringing rain Elsewhere, the hurricane center is keeping an eye on whether the remnants of Tropical Storm Dolly could develop again.
    — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Dolly’s remnants are now just a surface trough of low pressure producing a disorganized area of showers and thunderstorms stretching from over portions of Hispaniola, the Turks and Caicos and southeastern Bahamas.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of remnant
Noun
  • Chinese surveillance footage from the Tibetan side of the border shows a huge wall of mud and debris crashing over buildings and engulfing roads as people desperately try to flee the torrent.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026
  • An ice and rock avalanche from a high-altitude glacier may have triggered the flooding, with a large volume of debris entering the Lende Khola tributary, researchers have said in a preliminary assessment.
    — Josh Feldman, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of debris
Noun
  • The past is not so much foreign as free, free to anyone who is willing to do the work, to enter the past with a spirit of curiosity and a willingness to conjure a living world out of the detritus that history leaves behind.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Still, even with Ellison’s $111 billion WBD takeover plan under threat from a state attorneys general antitrust suit, $4 million and change is sofa detritus to the son of Larry Ellison.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of detritus
Noun
  • Like a massive ocean swell, which can bear all kinds of flotsam and jetsam ashore, a political wave that is big enough, broad enough and strong enough can carry all manner of unlikely candidates to victory.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Beyond any of the sociocultural flotsam and jetsam, hanging out with your crush on a lake at a northern latitude both softens and distills all the brain-stem-deep associations with what summer means.
    — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of flotsam
Noun
  • This seven-year-old girl pulled from the rubble after rescue workers heard her cries.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Other than that, he’s never seemed confident that the future will turn out all right, although he’s kept on working out his worries onscreen, forever hunting for flakes of hope in the rubble.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of rubble
Noun
  • With the brush in hand, make circular motions on the surfaces, breaking up any chalky residues and removing bacteria.
    — Michelle Mastro, The Spruce, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Around 10% of clean dishes were found with sticker residue on their food contact surfaces.
    — Joseph Hernandez August 31, Kansas City Star, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of residue
Noun
  • The mountains, castles, and ruins of Ashina enable a unique traversal system.
    — Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The tornado struck Pomas, a village of about 1,000 people, on Monday and rescue teams were continuing their search through ruins on Tuesday, though no people were immediately reported missing.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of ruins

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“Jetsam.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jetsam. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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