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to get rid of as useless or unwanted
we'll have to junk this old car
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Recent Examples of junked
Literary Hub,
22 June 2026
The lot was filled with junked cars, equipment and garbage, the report shows.
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Kellie Love,
Hartford Courant,
9 Mar. 2026
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
So Squeri junked the scoreboard.
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Ruth Umoh,
Fortune,
11 May 2026
Sets would be built and then junked only to be rebuilt again at considerable cost due to an overall lack of familiarity with standard Hollywood filmmaking procedures.
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Chris Lee,
Vulture,
27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
Plots littered with junked trunks, empty skid tanks, the rib cages of hoop houses picked clean.
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Literary Hub,
22 June 2026
The lot was filled with junked cars, equipment and garbage, the report shows.
—
Kellie Love,
Hartford Courant,
9 Mar. 2026
Verb
Note that this result doesn’t necessarily mean that the fraud detection should be junked.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
So Squeri junked the scoreboard.
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Ruth Umoh,
Fortune,
11 May 2026
Sets would be built and then junked only to be rebuilt again at considerable cost due to an overall lack of familiarity with standard Hollywood filmmaking procedures.
—
Chris Lee,
Vulture,
27 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for junked
Adjective
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In another development, researchers in the US developed a new method that could turn discarded data center hardware into a reliable, eco-friendly source of rare earths and valuable metals.
Verb
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The penalties vary based on factors such as how much trash was dumped and the type of offense.
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The public has voted for its two favorite dumped Casa Islanders to return to the villa — at which point Amora and Carl leap out of giant prop cakes on either side of the stage.
Adjective
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Underdog startups and neglected divisions tell similar stories.
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Cinematographer Guillermo Garza shoots neglected settings like fine art, embracing the grime.
Verb
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Starmer ditched some of his predecessor’s more left-wing policies and apologized for antisemitism that an internal investigation concluded had been allowed to spread under Corbyn.
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Seminole commissioners are furious that Lynx wants to hike costs for its mass transit service — even after the county ditched most of its bus routes last January due to a lack of riders.
Verb
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On Tuesday, investors unloaded at least some of their holdings in these stocks.
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Following the news that Major League Baseball stated that members of the San Francisco Giants violated the league's rules by writing Bible verses on their pride hats, Dan Dakich unloaded on the league.
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On the sixth day of France’s heat wave, when temperatures reached record highs, shoppers scrapped over box fans, and Americans and Europeans beefed on X, a neighbor in our apartment building near Paris finally broke down and texted me.
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Alas, Vanilla Ice played for no one Friday after weather scrapped his Freedom 250 concert just two hours before his performance.
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Since Ecuador lost, Hincapié will serve his red-card suspension during the team’s next international match.
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The research does not include, for example, drivers who may be put out of work by self-driving cars, or roles lost due to manufacturing automation, Ramp Economics Lab’s lead economist Ara Kharazian said.
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“Junked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junked. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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