junk

The underlying pool of assets—be they loans to companies or student debt—are often speculative grade or junk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Each of these criteria have been used in prior studies to differentiate quality stocks from junk.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

“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

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

There was a battered table and chair and some cardboard boxes of junk.

From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis

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

Trails of frayed odd ribbons and precious bits of gift wrap and other junks of the past.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

The city’s common-law heritage—which nominally rejected retroactivity in criminal law—was junked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025

Prospects of a pre-negotiation ceasefire seem to have been junked.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2025

A pile of junked cars, different scale radio telescopes and an unfinished freeway ramp to nowhere are all visible from that opening train shot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 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

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

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

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

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman