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Recent Examples of junkyard
Idea from dad’s junkyard Johnson spent part of his childhood in Milltown, Wis., where his father, also named Joe Johnson, owned a junkyard.
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Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 9 Mar. 2025
Empty storage trailers, cars and buses sit scattered across some parking lots that resemble junkyards.
—Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 19 Feb. 2025
Joe adds that Christopher was always going to die in the end (although a quick moment in a junkyard seems to imply that Christopher's consciousness in the Cosmo bot somehow survived).
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2025
At Melancholy, one of Salt Lake City's newest wine bars, patrons can enjoy their sips surrounded by antiques and junkyard discoveries that tell their own stories.
—Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 24 Mar. 2025
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Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 9 Mar. 2025
Empty storage trailers, cars and buses sit scattered across some parking lots that resemble junkyards.
—Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 19 Feb. 2025
Joe adds that Christopher was always going to die in the end (although a quick moment in a junkyard seems to imply that Christopher's consciousness in the Cosmo bot somehow survived).
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2025
At Melancholy, one of Salt Lake City's newest wine bars, patrons can enjoy their sips surrounded by antiques and junkyard discoveries that tell their own stories.
—Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for junkyard
Noun
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Hartford Courant This should be no surprise, given that only about 9% of the world’s plastic is actually recycled, and 70% ends up in landfills or in the environment.—
Andre Garron,
Hartford Courant,
12 June 2025
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In Vancouver, where 3,000 homes are being demolished per year, that adds up quickly to a lot of landfill.—
Jennifer Castenson,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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Other criteria evaluated were battery life and dustbin capacity.—
Toni Sutton,
People.com,
5 June 2025
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There's no large dustbin at the top of the handle like the company's other models.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
22 May 2025
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The musket balls were found together near a midden by the metal detectorist, cultural heritage coordinator Anthony Simmons said in the release, meaning a member of the First Nations could have brought the shot belt there and then discarded it.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2025
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The midden is a testament to the volume of shellfish eaten by Hoabinhians.—
Smithsonian Magazine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Feb. 2025
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Just four years later, Howard found himself being traded away in a salary dump.—
Tim Bontemps,
chicagotribune.com,
21 June 2017
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New York City is gradually transforming its largest trash dump, Fresh Kills on Staten Island, into a vast expanse of parkland and restored natural areas.—
Andres Viglucci,
miamiherald,
15 June 2017
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Fiji has more than 330 islands, one sanitary landfill, and two municipal dumps.—
By Aryn Baker/Lautoka, Fiji ,
TIME,
3 July 2024
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Other materials might need to be sent to a hazardous waste landfill that has double the plastic lining in place as a typical sanitary landfill in order to protect groundwater from anything that might otherwise leach into it.—
Justine Calma,
The Verge,
3 Feb. 2024
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“Junkyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junkyard. Accessed 22 Jun. 2025.
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