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“If you’ve only fed them junk food and then you put some beautiful Michelin-star food in front of them, it’ll seem alien to them,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Chinese companies have launched satellites into orbit using single-use rockets, which can be costly and contribute to the increasing amount of potentially hazardous space junk.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

He sees the junk that AI puts out is a shot in the arm for creatives who are doubting their own instincts.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said the government was taking "decisive action" on obesity, including new restrictions on junk food advertising and targets on healthy food sales.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

A couple of times today I thought I saw something black run behind a junk pile really fast.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones

Atop chairs, tables, and an overstuffed sofa, black-and-white prints of junks on the Yangtze River competed for space with cancelled passports and half-century-old issues of Vogue and Collier’s.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2017

Thousands more South Vietnamese took to sea in a motley group of boats, junks, rafts and sampans.

From US News ● Apr. 30, 2015

He junks that 71-line poem, deeming it a “work of the second intensity,” which is apparently some sort of Modernist insult that we should immediately bring back into common use.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2014

The Selden map is a reminder that Chinese traders sailing in junks navigated in Asian waters centuries before the Europeans came.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2013

Big crooked-sailed junks with eyes painted on their prows so they could see where they were going.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

OpenAI unilaterally junked their three-month-old billion-dollar deal without warning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

One early twist from the first series is junked for the second because producers know contestants will be expecting it.

From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2024

Piled on sidewalks, junked up against street curbs, and leaned against light poles, these unwieldy obstacles are a hazard for innocent citizens just trying to walk down the street.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 20, 2023

But since she’s saddled with the boy, Flora foists a junked guitar on him as a birthday present.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2023

Back with Granny, I told her to be on the lookout whenever Mrs. Smith junked any books.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

On Bluesky, Bill & Ted star Alex Winter shared that he was junking his Threads account, prompting fans to share screenshots of their own deletions.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2025

Sell or donate anything that’s usable and in good shape; recycle what you can before junking the rest.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

That would amount to a significant junking of a big chunk of the planned project.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2023

Merlino said she was stunned the commissioners voted for junking the machines and returning to old-fashioned hand counts.

From Reuters ● Nov. 6, 2022

She was taking the entire Garland value system and junking it!

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman