flotsam

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Served over ice in a short glass and topped with fruit-salad flotsam, the elixir is lightly caffeinated, mildly fruity and as refreshing as stepping out of the Hanoi humidity into full-blast air conditioning.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

While the garden is rooted in local culture, built bit by bit from the flotsam and jetsam of Los Angeles locations and plants native to the ecology, the programming is more global in approach.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025

Moreover, Musk’s unbanning of previously banned bad posters has resulted in some truly vile flotsam returning to the platform.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2023

Bent fences and waterlogged front lawns were the norm, with small bridges clogged with flotsam and closed because of the destabilizing impact of so much charging water.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2023

First the traffic struck me like a tidal wave and carried me along, a bit of shiny flotsam bounded in front by a gasoline truck half a block long.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck