discard
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Nationally, the survey found that 43% of respondents always or usually discard food near or past the date on the label, up from 37% in 2016.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 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
Without the agreement Scotland fans would have had to leave their sporrans in lockers outside or discard them altogether.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
The lack of gas tanks makes them easier to transport and cheap enough to discard wherever they land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
He finishes his cider and finds a bin to discard his cup, though as soon as he places it within the shadowed container it seems to vanish.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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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
"This gives us a kind of 'periodic table' of AI methods. Different methods fall into different cells, based on which information a method's loss function retains or discards."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 2026
Most of these businesses offer pickup at the end of the season and have partnerships with farms, where they drop off discards that become food for animals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 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
Over and over he crosses out symbols and numbers, discards books in favor of others, and then returns to the discarded ones again.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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That foil packet tucked neatly with your dry noodles is meant to be used, not discarded.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Their mostly anonymous work personalized mass-produced material by decorating dog tags and coins, and recycling debris such as discarded shell and bullet cases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Saar traces her habit of rescuing discarded materials to her childhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Any signal showing essentially no Doppler change was considered almost certainly to have originated on Earth and was discarded.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Science would never progress until the world discarded Aristotle’s physics—along with Aristotle’s rejection of Zeno’s infinities.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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
We are rewarding technical knowledge and discarding the other two.
From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026
That means, in part, becoming more and more of a closed ecosystem, discarding customization methods that might take you away from official big-name apps or, worse, leave a cash-generating option on the table.
From Slate ● May 3, 2026
Rather than discarding it she hands it to her colleague, apparently ready to be reused on another child.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026
The present tense is moving forward, discarding concept after concept, and I am off to the side somewhere, fiddling with egg tempera and flat surfaces, as if the twentieth century has never happened.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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