junk
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Rupireddy searched his spam, junk and trash email folders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Indeed, it’s difficult to estimate how space junk is currently orbiting our planet.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Some experts have warned that amassing too much space junk around Earth could lead to a dangerous chain reaction of collisions known as the "Kessler syndrome."
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Why is space junk such a big problem?
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 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
The outline of the prow was already in place, turning up wide and snubnosed, the way all junks did.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
That decision junked Mr. Khan’s own investigatory timeline, shocking his ICC staff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
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
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
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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