littered

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When the last result was eventually declared in Inverness in the wee small hours, in a counting centre littered with empty pizza boxes, there was not even a crumb of comfort for the party.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

History is littered with examples of big media mergers going awry, and many of them involve some permutation of Warner Bros.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 23, 2026

At a hastily emptied compound 60 miles southwest of Chrey Thom, abandoned suitcases and clothes littered the corridors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

The part where the laser guides the VSELs around Scott’s body is perhaps the most dubious of a procedure littered with doubt.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

When I went inside, there was the new milliner, seated at a table littered with feathers, bird wings, satin bows, stiff tape, bolts of velvet, linen, silk, and so on, and several life-size dummy heads.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns