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LAX’s long-awaited Skylink train is 99% complete yet faces mounting uncertainty, as bond ratings sink into junk territory and looming 2026 deadlines raise the specter of default and termination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

One academic who immigrated to the United States said junk mail from the retailer helped convince her that she’d really become an American.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

The admin emails to which Microsoft sent those notifications tend to get slammed with junk from spammers, leading software developers to recommend ignoring those inboxes altogether.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Credit to the Administration for proposing to junk these gratuitous regulations, as well as to limit the amount of money providers can spend on overhead at 5% of their costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

A drenched and angry-looking Mr. Flux was knocking aside any and every piece of yard junk between him and the front door, on his way inside.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

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

Tied up along its shores was every conceivable kind of watercraft— Chinese junks, tugboats, rickety houseboats, old schooners, and barges heaped with jumbles of industrial cargo.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

That wasn’t happening, though I never junked the award and always knew in which drawer or closet it was.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

Economic policy was tightened; meaning policies were junked if they weren’t seen as affordable.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2024

It’s taken a decade, but Raul Rojas and Thomas Zamora have turned a Highland Park yard of hard dirt and junked cars into a lush expanse of native plants, succulents and vegetables.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 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

To house construction workers while the road was going in, Yutan purchased three junked buses, outfitted each with bunks and a simple barrel stove, and skidded them into the wilderness behind a D-9 Caterpillar.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Second, having what Sunak calls an honest debate about the "consensus" means junking some government promises.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 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