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disposal

[dih-spoh-zuhl] / dɪˈspoʊ zəl /




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The Environmental Protection Agency website notes that “multiple government agencies” approved the deep-ocean disposal of some refinery and chemical waste and military and radioactive junk, but it doesn’t specify DDT.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

The reserve has experienced 16 major equipment failures since 2013, including of raw water and brine disposal piping.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

This is not the freezer as bunker, or the freezer as punishment, or the freezer as the place where leftovers go to await their eventual quiet disposal.

From Salon Jul. 11, 2026

As far as Garcia is concerned, a focus on age is irrelevant and underplays the quality of players he has at his disposal.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

But Lillian always remarked that the doctors had taken a badly burned, homely man, and with all the advances of modern medicine at their disposal, turned him into a grotesquerie.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy




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