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[bin] / bɪn /


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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

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

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

"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




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