junk

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

While junk bonds are generally riskier, their higher yields can provide some extra cushion when debt prices are falling.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

All of a sudden, the player who couldn’t keep his emails out of the junk folder has become the quarterback NFL teams are lining up to draft, as a projected first-round pick in April.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

I was forced to walk lopsidedly across the room with one shoe on and one foot bare, weaving through the mess of furniture and junk.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

It has ancient Chinese sailing ships called junks, hundreds clustered together with thousands of people living in them.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

That wasn’t happening, though I never junked the award and always knew in which drawer or closet it was.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

“This is not an evidence-based report, and for all practical purposes, it should be junked at this point,” Georges C. Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Assn. told the Washington Post.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2025

Economic policy was tightened; meaning policies were junked if they weren’t seen as affordable.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 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

Back with Granny, I told her to be on the lookout whenever Mrs. Smith junked any books.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

It’s really hard to see any business rationale for junking a perfectly good brand identity and replacing it with a name and logo almost everyone finds off-putting.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023

At Brunello, a town near the Swiss border in Northern Italy, data management business Pure Storage is putting a data centre on a digital diet by trimming bits and bytes and junking surplus information.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 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