ditch
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In other words, the growth 20 years ago was largely coming from getting people to ditch their cash and checks for plastic.
From MarketWatch • May 25, 2026
In a ditch near a military outpost on Obeid’s periphery, an army engineer walked through a graveyard of RSF drones shot down in recent days.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday proposed a new rule that would let companies ditch quarterly reports in favor of filing earnings only twice a year.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
Conran’s herbaceous borders fall away toward a “ha-ha,” an infinity-edge garden with a hidden wall ditch to make the grass appear continuous with the fields beyond.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
Again and again throughout that second day she had to ask the impatient woman monitor at the head of our row for permission to go to the ditch that served as sanitary facility.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Vocabulary lists containing ditch
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