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discard

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


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"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

"Consumers who have any recalled product should discard it immediately and not consume it. Refunds are available at the location of purchase," it added.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

To remove that bias, the Dallas Fed designed its index to discard the 31% biggest increases in a given month, but only the 24% biggest decreases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 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

She picked up a card from the discard pile.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

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

The array of fossils were found about 25 years ago by palaeontologist Elizabeth Smith and her daughter Clytie while they were going through the discards of an opal mine.

From BBC ● May 27, 2024

As I wound my way through the discards a temporary solution sprang to my mind.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

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

Intensely self-critical, he also discarded untold numbers of his own works.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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

Lally said the weekend's fly-tipping was "one of the worst examples that we have come across", but it was not unusual to find discarded BBQs, beer cans and rotting food.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Because when the workers processed the pineapple, they discarded the cores in a huge pile behind the factory.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

Evie Roberts, a silversmith who teaches jewellery-making at the centre, said people needed to be educated about the dangers of discarding bottles or cigarettes, which can cause fires.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

I generally prefer, as a strategic matter, an elevation of shared values—inclusive, connective, moral language such as reclaiming, rather than reinventing or discarding.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

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

By discarding more of the increases, the Dallas Fed index inadvertently understated the upward trend in inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

On Saturday, June 10, the Tribune sniffed, “Her Highness...has a way of discarding programs and following independently the bent of her inclination.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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