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Recent Examples of junkyard
In one video, Enigma spots a junkyard filled with old-fashioned cars, the kind that required drivers.
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Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Our production design department had to sift through a junkyard to find our production design.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2025
The pack rat, whose entire yard is filled with stuff — a total junkyard.
—Chi Varnado, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2025
Sam Das, United States, 2024 A young trans woman is chased into a junkyard while being followed home late at night.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025
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Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Our production design department had to sift through a junkyard to find our production design.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2025
The pack rat, whose entire yard is filled with stuff — a total junkyard.
—Chi Varnado, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2025
Sam Das, United States, 2024 A young trans woman is chased into a junkyard while being followed home late at night.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for junkyard
Noun
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Claridge, who has the chronic lung condition COPD, can tell when the landfill is on fire.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
15 Aug. 2025
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Most saw noticeable gains in textile donations compared to control sites; what ACT UK said demonstrates potential to divert NRT from landfill—and incineration.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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However, thanks to the self-emptying feature, our tester didn’t have to dump the dustbin.—
Toni Sutton,
People.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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When docked, the clean station automatically empties the vacuum’s dustbin.—
Terri Williams,
Architectural Digest,
3 July 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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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 21 Aug. 2025.
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