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“But if he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won’t stop him.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
It’s difficult to portray yourself as an antiestablishment maverick when you’re going up against a man dressed as a bin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
"But if he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won't stop him," she said, referring to serial election candidate Count Binface who has also announced his intention to stand against Farage.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
The state-owned DP World is one of the world's largest port operators and is ultimately controlled by Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
After replacing the orange cap over the needle, I dropped the used syringe into a dedicated recycle bin that would be dropped off at the vet when full.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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She mops the comb plates of escalators, empties trash bins and sweeps the platform of the No. 7 line subway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
In the midmorning heat, hundreds of people lined up outside a San Joaquin Valley farm this week to get their haul from large blue bins filled with thousands of bright red nectarines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
L.A. is the first major city to provide green bins to 750,000 residential customers, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Although Mr. Paré-Poupart also works as a writer and a social worker, it’s the physical challenge and camaraderie of garbage work that brings him “profound satisfaction and great joy” and keeps him hoisting heavy bins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
We went behind the stores, to alleyways of trucks and trash bins and staring cats.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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Even when Joe Hawkins was binned after five minutes Wales grew stronger.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
However, Quins had fly-half Smith binned in the second half and La Rochelle took advantage to draw level through unconverted tries by former England wing Jack Nowell and scrum-half Thomas Berjon.
From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026
"When I was growing up, you'd get a couple of plastic throwaway items from the supermarket in the days before Halloween, and then they were binned," she says.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2025
Disposable sanitary pads are the most commonly used period product - they stick into your underwear, absorb blood externally and are wrapped and binned after use.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025
"I wonder what their king binned off," Tyrion said to Bronn when he heard the tale.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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"Together, we pioneered the trio binning method for genome assembly. This approach was also published in Nature Communications."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 12, 2026
She added: "For too long, they've been stifled by clunky, outdated rules. We're binning them, to protect pavement pints, al fresco dining and street parties - not just for the summer, but all year round."
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2025
England prop Joe Marler has apologised for a "poorly articulated" social media post before Saturday's match against New Zealand, where he said the haka "needs binning".
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2024
This new information about olfactory genes in cats was made possible through a new approach to genome sequencing called trio binning, which allows researchers to sequence the most difficult regions of a genome.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2023
When binning the wine the bottles are held by their necks and slid into their places with such ease and safety that a child might be entrusted with the work.
From Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines by Vizetelly, Henry