as in discarded
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
bad habits are hard to shuck off
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This country has basically discarded them.—
Leila Fadel,
NPR,
2 Sep. 2025 -
In his work, Fifield-Perez’s interdisciplinary practice centers the materiality of paper ephemera, everyday self- documents discarded after having fulfilled their purpose.—
Jake Richardson,
Mercury News,
1 Sep. 2025
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The season will detail 10 different cases, including a Las Vegas journalist ambushed outside his residence, a body dumped in a NYC tunnel, and a mission to discover the identity of a victim found in the East River.—
Giana Levy,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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Here, they’re treated like sweet potatoes or cabbages, dumped by the dozen into large plastic bags, or piled into car trunks waiting for sale.—
Haicen Yang,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
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On a recent morning, sweaty workers unloaded cargo boats by hand, carrying crates of beer, sacks of rice, and bags of flour on their shoulders 100 yards up the muddy riverbank to trucks waiting on the wharf.—
John Otis,
NPR,
7 Sep. 2025
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Early on, Paul unloaded on Cena with some punches to the gut in the corner.—
Blake Oestriecher,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Verb
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In 2010, retailer Gap ditched its decades-old blue box logo for a more minimalist design.—
Ali McCadden,
CNBC,
27 Aug. 2025
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In January, the insurer ditched its traditional pharmacy benefits model, dropping CVS Caremark for third-party pharmacy benefit manager services except specialty drugs.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
26 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Presumably, this is because those players lost their ‘development’ period — their early teenage years — to the war.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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Eastern Washington lost its opening game last week and has not had a winning season since 2021.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Shucked (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shucked%20%28off%29. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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