as in garbage
discarded or useless material
a pile of offal from the tannery operating in the neighborhood
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Recent Examples of offal
In many restaurants across the country, animal organs such as beef offal are displayed to show freshness, especially for hotpot.
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Peter Guo, NBC news, 17 Sep. 2025
The restaurant, which always seems crowded, serves dishes rich with pig blood and offal and specializes in Szechuan dishes and hot pots.
—Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Organ Meats and Offal Certain organ meats and offal are high in collagen.
—Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 26 July 2025
Soon the waste and effluent and slag heaps are strewn beside the bay and across the Tacoma tidal flats like offal dropped from a raptor’s nest.
—Caroline Fraser
june 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
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Peter Guo, NBC news, 17 Sep. 2025
The restaurant, which always seems crowded, serves dishes rich with pig blood and offal and specializes in Szechuan dishes and hot pots.
—Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Organ Meats and Offal Certain organ meats and offal are high in collagen.
—Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 26 July 2025
Soon the waste and effluent and slag heaps are strewn beside the bay and across the Tacoma tidal flats like offal dropped from a raptor’s nest.
—Caroline Fraser
june 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for offal
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Installed on the former garbage dump bounded by Sunset, Lewis, Western and Glen Flora avenues, there are now 20,000 solar panels.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Jan. 2026
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Rescuers retrieved eight people alive and were searching for the missing still trapped after a huge mound of garbage and debris collapsed on them in the village of Binaliw in Cebu city, police said.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
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Weekend Home Deals Keep your home clean and tidy with fabric storage bags, drawer organizers, and a Shark steam mop that effortlessly removes grime, sticky messes, and more debris from hard floors.—
Isabel Garcia,
PEOPLE,
16 Jan. 2026
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None Created from debris streams left behind by Comet Thatcher (which last circled the sun in 1861), the Lyrid meteor shower averages between 10 to 20 fireballs per hour.—
Michael d'Estries,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Jan. 2026
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Kirkland Signature is Costco's private label brand which offers a variety of products, including groceries, health and beauty products, clothing, and household items, such as trash bags and cleaning supplies.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
12 Jan. 2026
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Two passengers in the trash truck – identified as 22-year-old Juan Cormachi and 35-year-old Fausto Flores – were injured during the crash and taken to a shock trauma center.—
JT Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
12 Jan. 2026
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Piles of human scraps offer a bottomless buffet to wildlife, and to access that bounty, animals need to be bold enough to rummage through human rubbish but not so bold as to become a threat to people.—
Marina Wang,
Scientific American,
14 Nov. 2025
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Helga once wrestled down a drunk fisherman in the Café, a man of above-average size, and then threw him out like a piece of rubbish; Jens thus transfers most of his weight automatically to her; who is this kid, by the way?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Georgetown officials are asking people to avoid the water in San Gabriel and Blue Hole parks after more than 100,000 gallons of untreated sewage spilled into the South San Gabriel River following a break in the wastewater line.—
Claire Osborn,
Austin American Statesman,
6 Jan. 2026
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New fees will also be introduced for sewage services, the cost of foreign workers’ permits will be raised, and natural gas subsidies will be phased out for companies.—
Dominic Dudley,
semafor.com,
5 Jan. 2026
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Safety and health worries have long surrounded landfills in many cities and towns in the Philippines, especially ones near poor communities whose residents scavenge for junk and leftover food in the garbage heaps, the AP points out.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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His wife’s body was discovered by a man who was working on the property to clear out junk ahead of the property’s sale.—
Shelly Bradbury,
Denver Post,
8 Jan. 2026
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Researchers revealed that the high-voltage output facilitates the neutralization and collection of dust and moisture by generating negative ions.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Jan. 2026
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Adding a dust ruffle around the base of your bed can make this spot even better for keeping messy items hidden.—
Lauren Landers,
The Spruce,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Offal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/offal. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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