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as in discarded
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
a politician who had laid by his principles years ago
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as in stored
to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place
ever since the last hurricane caught them unprepared, they have laid by emergency supplies
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This was corrected, and the vermouth was discarded.
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Inspectors stopped food preparation immediately and tomato soup prepared with the brown water was discarded.
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The blaze ignited Wednesday at the nearly 500,000-square-foot cold storage facility run by a company called Lineage, beginning on the roof, which caused a partial collapse and moved the flames into the building, where 85 million pounds of food are stored.
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Most of the creatine in your body is stored in your muscles, and smaller amounts are stored in your brain.
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Some people like to come back to fresh bedding, a tidy closet, and an empty hamper so that everything from the trip can be dumped or sorted right away.
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Workers were seen in recent days removing algae from the Reflecting Pool, and on Tuesday morning, crews dumped bottles of hydrogen peroxide into the water.
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That means that the publicly available fund spending numbers don’t always capture what schools might have stashed away in their accounts.
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If your closet is one of the many that has a drawer stashed with an abundance of old T-shirts, welcome to the club.
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Following the news that Major League Baseball stated that members of the San Francisco Giants violated the league's rules by writing Bible verses on their pride hats, Dan Dakich unloaded on the league.
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Then Marte unloaded with a three-run homer — his first of the 2026 campaign — to create distance on the scoreboard.
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Starmer ditched some of his predecessor’s more left-wing policies and apologized for antisemitism that an internal investigation concluded had been allowed to spread under Corbyn.
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Seminole commissioners are furious that Lynx wants to hike costs for its mass transit service — even after the county ditched most of its bus routes last January due to a lack of riders.
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Foundation board treasurer Mark Rahman, a volunteer with the National Alliance on Mental Illness Tri Valley who also lost a child to suicide, supports Alan's parents' mission to bring good from their grief.
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Having lost to Mexico in the tournament's opening game and then drawn with Czechia, South Africa came into this game at the foot of the table.
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“Laid by.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laid%20by. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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