scrap
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Paddy made the hull out of the mast from a scrap wind turbine before welding a bow and a stern on and then adding an engine.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Parts intended for the scrap heap were used on the Dreamliner, we are told.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
His calls included asking the prime minister to scrap the business rates system.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Lekjaa last Saturday had praised his "wise" move to scrap the plan in the interests of "unity and cohesion".
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
I grabbed it up quickly and had started out—jittery, anxious to leave—when my eye was caught by a scrap of paper also on the table.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
The second phase is now understood to have been scrapped.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
A prototype for a frozen burrito with the same protein load was scrapped, because the tortilla couldn’t hold that much filling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
However, he also said that the compact is woefully out of date and should be scrapped and rewritten to match the reality of the shrinking river.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
This summer, it began broadcasting the name Ruby, assuming the identity of a vessel scrapped in 2018 in an apparent effort to keep operating under the radar, Douglas said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Ultimately it is scrapped as obsolete, never having brought any material benefit to anybody, and with further enormous labors another Floating Fortress is built.
From "1984" by George Orwell
Robinhood Markets, the popular retail brokerage, told the SEC in a comment Monday that it backed scrapping the rule, saying “its costs in forced connectivity, exchange proliferation, and complexity now outweigh its benefits.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Conrad: Carol is going to have to keep scrapping and not let anything worse happen to her son.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
The US acting attorney general said Sunday he had reached an agreement with lawmakers and issued an order officially scrapping a $1.8-billion compensation fund that has led to a standoff over his Senate confirmation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Medicare is scrapping a temporary program that helped keep the price of monthly premiums in check for older adults with Part D prescription drug plans.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
I opened my closet and there they were, where I’d left them four months before: my scrapping boots.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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