discarding

Example Sentences

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Base-editing technology could one day be used to help parents avoid discarding embryos in the IVF process.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

He told officers he did not know the items were in his bag and would be fine discarding them.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

Breeding, says Paul Arens of Wageningen University & Research, "is the art of throwing away", discarding those plants which don't match your ambitions, but it also the art of multiplying what's left.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

We are rewarding technical knowledge and discarding the other two.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

The present tense is moving forward, discarding concept after concept, and I am off to the side somewhere, fiddling with egg tempera and flat surfaces, as if the twentieth century has never happened.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood