dump
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She gets him within spitting distance of Downing Street just in time for her husband to dump her.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
Yet nobody could remember ever seeing the man in a cowboy hat before 2024, when he was spotted talking to residents about lawsuits against the local dump.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
It is expected to dump rain on Taiwan's north and east, and on a chain of remote Japanese islands, before making landfall in south-eastern China on Saturday.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
As for stocks, he said the market seems to be saying that it wants to dump anything that looks like an AI loser, along with some “babies with the bathwater,” and it doesn’t care.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
Despite this expenditure, Hoover had decided, after assuming command of the bureau, to dump the case back on state authorities in order to evade responsibility for the failure.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Also included are the sites of underground gas storage facilities, refineries, fuel terminals, legacy pollution sites, active industrial sites, landfills, dumps and recycling centers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
Nearly 30 suspected illegal waste "super sites", each containing tens of thousands of tonnes of rubbish, have been identified in a new watchlist of dumps in England.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
Federal Court judge Stephen Burley described how four large open-pit mines, a railway, tailings dam, waste dumps and a stockpile were strewn across the lands of the Yindjibarndi people in Western Australia's Pilbara region.
From Barron's ● May 12, 2026
Welcome to this weekend’s edition of the Surge, a politics newsletter that, in light of the hantavirus outbreak, sadly will be canceling all of our future vacations to rat-infested garbage dumps.
From Slate ● May 9, 2026
Connor dumps soy sauce over his rice with a splash.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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The night before they were dumped, there had been wheel marks across the estate, he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
U.S. stock indexes fell as investors dumped tech stocks amid fresh worries that hyperscalers are overspending on AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Some were dumped in Togo without documents, while others, including a bisexual Gambian man, were sent home, according to US court filings.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
Soon after, former Utah basketball player and sports content creator Hunter Mecum posted a video on Instagram in which he dumped a large bowl of ice water on himself in Johnson’s honor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
I dumped Juanita’s backpack onto the floorboard and sat with my back pressed against the truck’s door, looking at Abuelita as I rubbed my forehead.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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So skip the headline about Japan dumping U.S. bonds.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Around 700 firefighters have been battling the flames on land, while several firefighting planes have been dumping water from the sky since the blaze erupted around midday on Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
For years, almost any open space far enough out of sight looked like a why-not dumping ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Wouldn’t you know it, the company started dumping Bitcoin in May.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Cities built near major bodies of water often create new land by dumping soil and rubble, called landfill, into bays and ocean inlets.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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