castoff
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At the end of the book, Klara is left in a junk yard among other castoff items—an object among objects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
How Pizza Hut fell from stuffed-crust glory to corporate castoff.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
He was brought here by Ned Colletti before the 2014 season as a New York Mets castoff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024
Cattrall is currently co-starring in "Glamorous," a CW castoff snapped up by Netflix in which she plays cosmetics mogul and former model Madolyn Addison.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2023
She rolled over the block of sugar maple, a castoff from someone’s construction project, and it became her perch whenever she had a spare moment.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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