dump
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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
You only set up an IPO like this to enable insiders to dump their stakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 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
Cheese makers would sometimes pay farmers to dump the whey onto their fields or feed it to livestock, said Corey Geiger, lead dairy economist at CoBank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
I stay put for a few more seconds, squeezing my eyes shut, before I dump the rest of my cider, too.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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He has seen the classic early 2000s photo dumps on Facebook and thinks "people are romanticising the anonymity of it, as much as the aesthetic".
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
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
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
Otis dumps the rest of the meat at the tree line, leaving it in a heap that buzzes with flies.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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However, the American was dumped down to a tie for fifth at five under after being handed the penalty.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
The movie ends with Zuckerberg alone at a computer, refreshing the Facebook page of the woman who dumped him and waiting for her to accept his friend request.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Within minutes of Scotland being officially dumped out of the World Cup, the news of the head coach's departure dropped.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
So Meloni did what Italians have come to expect of their fiery prime minister: She publicly dumped him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
I jumped onto my bike, still dumped in the front yard, and pedaled hard with no destination in mind.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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Chuck Maitland is a 35-year-old corporate copywriter—“lead copywriter,” he clarifies—who picks up Joey Halstead shortly after dumping his fiancée.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Investors are dumping shares of the best-performing stocks — mainly semiconductor names — and shifting their money into financials, healthcare and consumer staples.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
But the accumulation of methane gas, exacerbated by heat waves and the climate crisis, can turn these dumping grounds into powder kegs.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
"By reusing plastic waste that is already in Hawaii, we can reduce the environmental and economic impacts of transporting waste plastics from the islands, incinerating it or dumping it in Hawaii's overflowing landfills."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026
I realize they must have seen me dumping the final vial.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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