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Recent Examples of junkyard
About 125 people in apartments east of the junkyard were evacuated.
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Sarah Perkel,
USA Today,
26 May 2026
The former junkyard is seen as ripe for future redevelopment, but an environmental clean-up is clearly a costly hurdle to be cleared.
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Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
17 May 2026
The musical moves the action from a junkyard to the fashion and dance-forward world of ballroom culture — the underground cultural movement born in New York that for decades has created a safe space for self-expression particularly among the Black and Latino LGBTQ+ community.
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Liz Rothaus Bertrand,
Charlotte Observer,
29 Apr. 2026
There’s that churro bread pudding, the one with a junkyard origin story that breaks down the churros and then reforms them into a dense and perfect block as powerful as an Avengers movie prop.
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Mike Sutter,
San Antonio Express-News,
22 Apr. 2026
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Sarah Perkel,
USA Today,
26 May 2026
The former junkyard is seen as ripe for future redevelopment, but an environmental clean-up is clearly a costly hurdle to be cleared.
—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
17 May 2026
The musical moves the action from a junkyard to the fashion and dance-forward world of ballroom culture — the underground cultural movement born in New York that for decades has created a safe space for self-expression particularly among the Black and Latino LGBTQ+ community.
—
Liz Rothaus Bertrand,
Charlotte Observer,
29 Apr. 2026
There’s that churro bread pudding, the one with a junkyard origin story that breaks down the churros and then reforms them into a dense and perfect block as powerful as an Avengers movie prop.
—
Mike Sutter,
San Antonio Express-News,
22 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for junkyard
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Transporting such equipment over long distances can be expensive, causing some materials to be diverted into lower-value recycling streams or even sent to landfills.
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Today, more than half of plastic waste ends up in landfills, and less than one-tenth is recycled globally.
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Plus, its dock automatically empties the dustbin, washes and dries the mop pads, and can go up to 65 days between dustbin changes.
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The suction power easily keeps up with her toddler’s Cheerio spills, and the dustbin is still large enough to clean her entire split-level home in one pass.
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But this is the first time archaeologists have actually unearthed a midden with evidence that people added to it regularly for so many generations.
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Now, researchers plan to extend their investigations to nearby early settlement sites to determine if Culasawani is a midden or muddle.
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But Minnesota’s salary dump of Julius Randle last Monday took a chunk out of Brooklyn’s cap space and Chicago’s.
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Trae Young, who was drastically better than Acuff as a freshman at Oklahoma and made an All-NBA team, got traded this season in what was essentially a salary-cap dump.
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Fiji has more than 330 islands, one sanitary landfill, and two municipal dumps.
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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.
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“Junkyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junkyard. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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