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discard

[dih-skahrd, dis-kahrd] / dɪˈskɑrd, ˈdɪs kɑrd /


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These search engines and chatbots could help you place a price on items you are trying to discard.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

"To understand one day that you think you're important to somebody, and then all of a sudden you're not. They discard you like a piece of garbage."

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

That’s fine if the move is methodical, not fine if a health crisis turns it into a fire drill, forcing quick and painful decisions on what treasures to discard without a proper farewell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

On behalf of the intervenors, Shayla Myers argued that the encampment removal goal, approved by the City Council in a closed session, became a defacto quota system for sanitation workers to discard homeless people’s belongings.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

They would often discard things along the route of march.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

They agree to meet again, but Kip completely discards his Western life.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

This measurement, which has critics and fans, discards the categories with the most extreme inflation readings on both the high and low ends.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

Typical of the movie’s scatterbrained nature is the small drama it creates, then discards, about Guthrie’s past: He lived in Germany for years, though no one seems interested in whether this ended before the war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025

It also discards homes that have been listed for more than six months, as it considers them to be unlikely to sell.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2025

I leave him leaning over the puzzle, his hair falling forward as he picks up pieces and discards them, one after one.

From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord

Extra material includes the discarded chapters as well as letters Hemingway exchanged at the time, including those with Fitzgerald.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

They fashioned toys out of discarded objects and created their own street games, said David Nasaw, a historian who wrote a book about children’s lives during this period.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The researchers process PET plastic, discarded corn stalks and leaves, and other biomass using a proprietary technique known as oxidative hydrothermal dissolution.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

Yuvraj Yadav, who sells sandwiches in a Mumbai suburb, says he used to wrap them in discarded newspapers, despite concerns that chemicals in the printing ink can leach into food.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

If the line cannot be incorporated, it is discarded and a new one put down.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

AFP reporters saw hundreds of people -- men, women and children -- entering Ceuta, discarding flotation rings and clothes used in their crossing.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

For salad lovers, experts recommend buying whole heads of lettuce and removing and discarding the outer couple of layers of leaves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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

Auntie An-mei is rubbing her tile carefully before discarding it.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan




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