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Recent Examples of junkyard
In the exclusive trailer above, junkyard baron Norman Henry (Mandy Patinkin) and his wife Marian (Janet McTeer) sit down to dinner for two in their country home.
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Breanne L. Heldman, PEOPLE, 9 Oct. 2025
But what seems like a windfall quickly spirals into a chain of betrayal, junkyard standoffs and escalating violence.
—Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
In Marietta, with meager funds, Marcus Brachman started a junkyard.
—Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Aug. 2025
Standout works include a series of images by Tony Albert and David Charles Collins depicting kids posing as Superhero charactres on of trashed cars in a junkyard.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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Breanne L. Heldman, PEOPLE, 9 Oct. 2025
But what seems like a windfall quickly spirals into a chain of betrayal, junkyard standoffs and escalating violence.
—Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
In Marietta, with meager funds, Marcus Brachman started a junkyard.
—Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Aug. 2025
Standout works include a series of images by Tony Albert and David Charles Collins depicting kids posing as Superhero charactres on of trashed cars in a junkyard.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for junkyard
Noun
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On the West Coast, San Francisco and Los Angeles are diverting about 80% of their waste away from landfills.—
Tara Molina,
CBS News,
23 Jan. 2026
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Lisa’s fate was ignominious—thousands of unsold units were literally buried in a Utah landfill, an almost comical end for such a historically significant machine.—
Tim Bajarin,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The auto clean process includes cleaning not only the dustbin, but also the brush, tube, and the HEPA filter.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
23 Dec. 2025
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And does a particular level of disuse have to be reached for a word to be dropped into the lexical dustbin?—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Moreover, at higher temperatures, pine cones stored in middens, which act as a refrigerator, tend to spoil faster.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
23 Dec. 2025
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Every man must take part in the work, and even the officers cover the middens and feed the sick.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Northland Arboretum was built half a century ago on top of what was once a city dump.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2026
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Kim Kardashian posed in nothing but a sheer black lace lingerie in a NSFW photo dump shared on January 28.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
28 Jan. 2026
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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 30 Jan. 2026.
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