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Recent Examples of scrap heap
The American Medical Association agrees that Daylight Saving Time belongs on the cultural scrap heap.
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Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
Shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis rescued the former Royal Canadian Navy support boat from the scrap heap for $34,000 after World War II and spent $4 million (now about $50 million) transforming the military vessel into a statement of postwar opulence.
—Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 1 Feb. 2025
Finding Sam Hauser on the post-draft scrap heap and Payton Pritchard at the end of the first round extended their talent base.
—The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
External actuators were preferred in the early days of self-driving ground vehicles, when even the military, with all its resources, contented itself by grafting control technology onto existing vehicles, probably those that were ready for the scrap heap.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Dec. 2015
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Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
Shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis rescued the former Royal Canadian Navy support boat from the scrap heap for $34,000 after World War II and spent $4 million (now about $50 million) transforming the military vessel into a statement of postwar opulence.
—Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 1 Feb. 2025
Finding Sam Hauser on the post-draft scrap heap and Payton Pritchard at the end of the first round extended their talent base.
—The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
External actuators were preferred in the early days of self-driving ground vehicles, when even the military, with all its resources, contented itself by grafting control technology onto existing vehicles, probably those that were ready for the scrap heap.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Dec. 2015
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrap heap
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Sardinia, an Italian island in the Mediterranean just south of France's Corsica, is famed for its beaches and ancient ruins.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Well, or how the ancient ruins of Petra stole the show in the final scenes of Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).—
Mathew Scott,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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In a new Instagram photo dump recapping her 30th birthday celebrations, Brittany Mahomes shared a photo of the Grammy winner, 35, joining in on the party — and placing her martini on the mother of three’s head!—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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And then there was the dump single.—
Doug Padilla,
Oc Register,
1 Sep. 2025
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Schools, churches, small shops that survived the devastating 2010 earthquake that killed over 300,000 are now a pile of rubble, part of the apocalyptic landscape left behind by the retreating forces that control almost all of Haiti’s capital.—
Johnny Fils-Aimé,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
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Timur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv's military administration, said an infant's body was pulled from the rubble in the Darnytskyi district, where a four-story apartment building was damaged.—
Lidia Kelly,
USA Today,
7 Sep. 2025
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The avalanche temporarily dammed the Lonza River, which runs through Blatten, and small lakes, filled with dead trees and detritus from homes, formed on each side of the village.—
Daniel A. Gross,
New Yorker,
27 Aug. 2025
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But its detritus remains, giving rise to streaks that wow sky watchers every August.—
Clara Moskowitz,
Scientific American,
11 Aug. 2025
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The resulting anger directed at lumber companies sparked the beginnings of the conservation movement, paving the way for the founding of Yellowstone, the first national park.—
Ellen Walker,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Sep. 2025
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Multiple Section 232 investigations are active — spanning sectors such as lumber, pharmaceuticals, furniture, aerospace, trucks and truck parts, seafood, and critical minerals.—
Lori Ann LaRocco,
CNBC,
2 Sep. 2025
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Choose from a variety of washes and four inseam lengths.—
Jamie Allison Sanders,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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Avoid low-lying washes and underpasses.—
Staff reports,
AZCentral.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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Heavy rains and leaky sewage pipes The causes of fecal bacteria in coastal and inland waters vary depending on the region, but in each case it's worsened by heavy rains and extreme weather events like hurricanes and tornadoes, experts said.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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Other factors have also played a role in contaminating beaches, including increasingly severe weather that overwhelms sewage systems, and suburban sprawl that paves over natural areas and reduces the ecosystem’s ability to absorb stormwater, Rumpler said.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Scrap heap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrap%20heap. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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