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Credit to the Administration for proposing to junk these gratuitous regulations, as well as to limit the amount of money providers can spend on overhead at 5% of their costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

In 2011 Dobbie brought a judicial review at the Court of Session in Edinburgh against a plan to ban junk food to combat inmate obesity at Carstairs.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Researchers warn the growing density of space junk could trigger the so-called "Kessler syndrome" cascade of collisions.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

Indeed, it’s difficult to estimate how space junk is currently orbiting our planet.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

Mom and Boo and I like to roll down the windows, blare Rihanna, and eat junk food.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

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

The outline of the prow was already in place, turning up wide and snubnosed, the way all junks did.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

That decision junked Mr. Khan’s own investigatory timeline, shocking his ICC staff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

Prospects of a pre-negotiation ceasefire seem to have been junked.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2025

“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

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

On Bluesky, Bill & Ted star Alex Winter shared that he was junking his Threads account, prompting fans to share screenshots of their own deletions.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2025

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

She was taking the entire Garland value system and junking it!

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman