littered

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“They don’t have to live in the mess they’ve created,” Pratt says as he walks down an L.A. street littered with homeless tents.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Ford added: "It is predominantly fast food outlets – not too far from here, we have two main ones. So this whole area here is littered all the time."

From BBC • May 6, 2026

The history of companion robots is littered with e-waste carcasses, including Sony’s Aibo, Ugobe’s sauropod Pleo and the souped-up smart speaker known as Jibo.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 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

I reflected on how mass imprisonment has littered the national landscape with carceral monuments of reckless and excessive punishment and ravaged communities with our hopeless willingness to condemn and discard the most vulnerable among us.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson