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Recent Examples of junkyard
Empty storage trailers, cars and buses sit scattered across some parking lots that resemble junkyards.
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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
In the video, Wheeler sings to his daughter, who was born around the time of the car crash, from a car junkyard.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
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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
In the video, Wheeler sings to his daughter, who was born around the time of the car crash, from a car junkyard.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for junkyard
Noun
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In 2022, lawmakers implemented Senate Bill 1383, which initially mandated the diversion of 50% of all food and organic waste away from landfills, but increased to 75% on Jan. 1, 2025.—
Susanne Rust,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2025
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Over the years, multiple locations have been suspected as the source of the stench, particularly the landfill and the city’s wastewater treatment plant along James P. Snell Drive off U.S. 441.—
James Wilkins,
The Orlando Sentinel,
9 May 2025
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The vacuum is also equipped with a high-efficiency filter and a handy dustbin that can be emptied with the push of a button.—
Clara McMahon,
People.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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Its brush roll didn’t get tangled over time, despite its dustbin bursting with fur after each run.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
17 Apr. 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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This and oral reports evidenced that two even larger middens once existed nearby.—
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 25 May. 2025.
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