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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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Archival added that rescue efforts had been hampered by the fact that any sparks created by digging machinery could ignite methane gas emitted by the landfill, per the outlet.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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At the landfill site dozens of rescuers scrambled overnight in search of people trapped.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
9 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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Human poop was found in a 30-inch-deep midden inside the Cave of the Dead Children, according to a study published Oct. 22 in the journal.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
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Known to be pack rats, Allegheny woodrats will store large piles of food, called middens, in their dens.—
Karl Schneider,
IndyStar,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Otherwise, schedule bulk trash pickup or haul the mattress to the dump.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
5 Nov. 2025
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In 2023, Hailey got into the Halloween spirit in an Instagram photo dump.—
Hedy Phillips,
PEOPLE,
3 Nov. 2025
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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 9 Jan. 2026.
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