junk
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About one-quarter of the loans due in 2028 and 2029 have junk ratings of CCC-plus or below, according to PitchBook data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
To MidAmerican Energy, the wind turbines being taken down and dismantled at its Highland wind farm in O’Brien County, Iowa, are junk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
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
“What kind of junk is that to say on a button?”
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
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
It has ancient Chinese sailing ships called junks, hundreds clustered together with thousands of people living in them.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
They have junked the mandatory element of it.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026
The city’s common-law heritage—which nominally rejected retroactivity in criminal law—was junked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
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
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
At Brunello, a town near the Swiss border in Northern Italy, data management business Pure Storage is putting a data centre on a digital diet by trimming bits and bytes and junking surplus information.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 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
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