junk
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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
Check your rent bill to make sure you aren’t paying for any services or junk fees you weren’t aware of.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Speculative grade or junk bonds are riskier, although the higher yields are enticing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
He said it was junk and changed it back.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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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
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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
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
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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
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