Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for littering
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Rather than have their payroll and egos be kindling for clubhouse dysfunction, the Dodgers have found a formula to keep their winning ways going.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2026 -
Even minor parks or embers might be carried into leaves or grass, kindling a fire that can swiftly expand.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
21 Mar. 2026
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Technology keeps pushing toward a world where capturing a moment and generating one can happen in the same instant.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
20 Mar. 2026
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The news is a tough watch at the moment, with conflict around the world generating headlines, and Johnson knows this means the team will need to tread carefully.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
20 Mar. 2026
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DeVos wasn’t kidding, and on Monday, in front of close friends and family, current and former Magic executives and employees and local community leaders, a plaque was unveiled with Martins’ name on it at the Orlando Magic Hall of Fame that’s located in Kia Center on the terrace level.—
Jason Beede,
The Orlando Sentinel,
23 Mar. 2026
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McKneely wasn’t kidding about the staples being removed.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 Mar. 2026
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Whitesitt caught his state-record cutty there in mid-April, around the same time cutthroats in the northern Rockies are spawning in tributary streams.—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
18 Mar. 2026
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But Tigerman led a small office revolution during this period, spawning a group of young practitioners including Larry Booth, Jim Nagle, Tom Beeby and Stuart Cohen who transformed architectural culture and practice in the city.—
Edward Keegan,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2026
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Here are two simple methods for propagating ZZ plants.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
10 Mar. 2026
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The same goes for propagating cactus pups and leaf or stem cuttings.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
26 Feb. 2026
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Both cases were fodder for a media firestorm, begetting nightly news specials and full-length documentaries.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Jan. 2026
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The discovery, age five, that some people did not live in communities with all goods in common—that in fact for most, home was a locked building full of private property—begat questions still begetting questions at age thirteen.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Aug. 2025
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Despite religious and phenotypic differences, people around the western Mediterranean Sea have been interacting, trading, warring, migrating, and reproducing together for centuries.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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Vexingly, the war with Iran is reproducing in macrocosm what those wars taught in microcosm.—
Bernard Avishai,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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Delivering bad news In 2001, Jesse faced a scandal for having an affair that resulted in him fathering a child.—
Rick Davis,
CNN Money,
27 Feb. 2026
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Crowe believes that Maximus fathering a son with a woman other than his wife tarnishes his character's legacy, as the gladiator's primary motivation in the original film is to avenge the deaths of his wife and son.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Dec. 2025
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“Littering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/littering. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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