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Recent Examples of junkyard
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.
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Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 24 Mar. 2025
Decades ago, rangers and local volunteers transformed this area—once a junkyard—into a healthy 70-acre marsh with beavers, otters, turtles, and numerous avian species.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2025
Idea from dad’s junkyard Johnson spent part of his childhood in Milltown, Wis., where his father, also named Joe Johnson, owned a junkyard.
—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
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Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 24 Mar. 2025
Decades ago, rangers and local volunteers transformed this area—once a junkyard—into a healthy 70-acre marsh with beavers, otters, turtles, and numerous avian species.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2025
Idea from dad’s junkyard Johnson spent part of his childhood in Milltown, Wis., where his father, also named Joe Johnson, owned a junkyard.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for junkyard
Noun
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And while tech companies have taken steps to extract and recycle that gold for years, much of it still ends up in landfills.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
26 June 2025
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Billions of dollars in returns—many of which end up in landfills—are a symptom of a deeper problem: digital discovery isn’t built for how people think or shop.—
Sindhya Valloppillil,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
Noun
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The 205's novel dustbin is enormous, taking up most of the robot's back half.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
23 June 2025
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Other criteria evaluated were battery life and dustbin capacity.—
Toni Sutton,
People.com,
5 June 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
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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 4 Jul. 2025.
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