midden

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The project overall is called the Super Midden, based on midden - a word mostly used by archaeologists to describe ancient rubbish dumps.

From BBC • Jul. 16, 2025

The Central Intelligence Agency’s Manhattan-based “book club” office was run by an emigre from Romania named George Midden, who managed to send 10 million books behind the Iron Curtain.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2025

Several dozen injured people were treated at the scene and taken to hospitals, Hollands Midden officials said in a statement.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2023

Kelley was speaking at Maine’s best-known site, the Whaleback Shell Midden State Historic Site, during a recent conference she organized to discuss the vulnerable shell heaps.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2017

But the Midden had drawn back amid the reeds, holding tight the ruby-red stone in her small hands, and her eyes looked all darkened and slant, and her small scarlet mouth was curled.

From The Three Mulla-mulgars by De la Mare, Walter