as in discards
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
we'll have to junk this old car
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Try the Storm Chaser, which sends you into a zero-gravity fall, catches you in a funnel, then discards you into a pool below.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Feb. 2026 -
At the same time, Gans discards the psychological and spatial logic that gave meaning to the original telling’s dream-like sense of disorientation.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
23 Jan. 2026
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Season 2 ditches the courtroom for a company retreat, trading the isolated environment of a trial for the isolated environment of an offsite (at a ranch just north of Los Angeles).—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
20 Mar. 2026
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Nicholson wrote that the Jim Crow-era murder musical is the best kind of smart filmmaking, a barn-burner about religion and art and race that ditches the speeches for scenes of action and romance.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Mar. 2026
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As a demo, one of the artisans dumps a sack of more than 200 bones (a gray fox, incidentally) into a random jumble on a workbench.—
Jeff Wilson,
Outdoor Life,
11 Mar. 2026
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Nature dumps 12 to 18 inches of inconvenience uniformly across an entire community and leaves it up to you and your neighbors to sort out the mess.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
23 Feb. 2026
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An oil tanker unloads crude oil at a terminal at the port in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province on March 11, 2026.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
27 Mar. 2026
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After his dreams are all but dashed, Shah unloads on himself.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Junks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junks. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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