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discard

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


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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

Researchers estimate that more than a trillion microplastic fibers may be released worldwide every month as people use and discard these everyday cleaning tools.

From Science Daily Apr. 18, 2026

In torrential rain, Senegal goalkeeper Edouard Mendy regularly dried his gloves, but the ball boys repeatedly tried to discard his towel.

From BBC Mar. 18, 2026

I reflected on how mass imprisonment has littered the national landscape with carceral monuments of reckless and excessive punishment and ravaged communities with our hopeless willingness to condemn and discard the most vulnerable among us.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Back in the diamond belt of Sierra Leone, Daniel discards another sieve-load of gravel.

From BBC Jun. 3, 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

"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

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

Saar traces her habit of rescuing discarded materials to her childhood.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

But what if it were the “move fast” part that should have been discarded?

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

This is why in its 2025 guidance, the U.K.’s Food Standards Agency largely discarded the concept of UPFs.

From Slate Jul. 12, 2026

Those discarded bones later became an unexpected resource for another group of animals.

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

The scene then switched to Walter, standing in overalls amid his pile of discarded cars down in Monroeville.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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

We are rewarding technical knowledge and discarding the other two.

From MarketWatch May 7, 2026

That is what United hierarchy will be discarding if they choose to replace Carrick in three games' time.

From BBC May 3, 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

I read hard, discarding a writer as soon as I felt that I had grasped his point of view.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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