defunct
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The space junk includes defunct man-made objects like rocket bodies, dead satellites and fragments from launches, explosions and collisions that threaten to re-enter Earth's atmosphere or crash into functioning satellites.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
A whiskey entrepreneur has agreed to sell the defunct Green Mountain College campus in Vermont to Florida evangelist Tommie Zito.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
The reason for the separation between the businesses, Corley added, had to do with a defunct local law that forbade the two establishments existing under one umbrella.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
Both were asked to spray-paint the Islamic shahada - the declaration of faith - in Arabic on a defunct Debenhams in the city centre.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
With my cigar box of dollars and scrip left from my defunct newspaper delivery business, I went to Junior, the clerk at the drugstore counter, to find out.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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