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junk

[juhngk] / dʒʌŋk /


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In 2004, he was working at a junk yard and living in a house in National City, an associate told the FBI.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

It’s junk, and Eminem seems to know it.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

Speculative grade or junk bonds are riskier, although the higher yields are enticing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

All of a sudden, the player who couldn’t keep his emails out of the junk folder has become the quarterback NFL teams are lining up to draft, as a projected first-round pick in April.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Fred flew through the air and splash-landed in the shallow water, putting himself between Tater and the stinging lump of jiggly jelly junk.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

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

The practice of reusing parts from junked cars is common in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

They have junked the mandatory element of it.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026

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

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

It should continue to work on the Communities feature so people can chat about things they’re interested in rather than junking up their followers’ timelines with stuff they won’t care about.

From The Verge ● Apr. 25, 2022

Van Dyck ponders junking this now-unwanted piece of aerodynamics.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2018

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

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman


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