flotsam
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The term refers to the letters, advisories, online FAQs, interpretations and other administrative flotsam and jetsam that agencies generate to explain how they will interpret laws and rules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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
"It was impossible not to conclude," he later wrote, that for Powell "the struggle was about achieving long-term objectives, not simply a mastery of the flotsam and jetsam of current events".
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2024
Though I’ve never been a morning person, I’ve been waking at 5 a.m., thoughts churning in my head like flotsam.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
Maybe a toe here, a nostril there, or a mustache, floating like a little curl of seaweed among the other flotsam.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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