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[trash] / træʃ /




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His plans to renovate a 106-year-old golf course, which he has dubbed "trash island", is also being challenged in the courts.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Officers located and detained Stein in the area, and after a search, found a mini camera that had been discarded in a nearby trash can, police said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Read more: Marvell and Lumentum shareholders unite in panning merger deal: ‘It’s a trash offer’

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

The problems go beyond a shortage of public trash cans, Mendoza said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

Some of the lines are silly—about how he hogged the pepperoni pizza at our birthday party, put an obviously recyclable cup in the trash, and often leaves his shoelaces untied.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Only firms in desperate need of cash sell more shares when their valuations are low, because it dilutes existing shareholders and trashes the share price.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

An attorney who trashes the rule of law must know that eventually she will be barred from practicing it.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025

Spawned when the body trashes old red blood cells, the molecule is harmful refuse and a sign of illness.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 8, 2023

Moses Castillo, a retired Los Angeles police detective who runs an Instagram account that praises Villanueva and trashes his opponents — including me — was subdued.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2022

He that wades so far as to wet and foul himself, cares not how much he trashes further.—South.

From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou

Muhannad al-Tamimi, whose house had been occupied by soldiers since the operation began, returned to a trashed apartment with furniture and clothing littering the floors, mattresses overturned and a child's bicycle broken.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

Two decades ago, Paul Giamatti’s character infamously trashed the varietal in the hit movie “Sideways,” causing sales to tank and thousands of acres of California vines to be uprooted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Evans said: "We were concerned a lot of people would want to go up the mountain to see the graffiti, and the hillside would get trashed."

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

The worst ones seem to happen during bear markets, when the winning stocks of the preceding boom get trashed.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

“I can’t believe Zac trashed Marcus’s car. Pretty ballsy move.”

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

“Like I said, I still have feelings about a young man trashing his whole life like that. But no.”

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Getting rid of stuff is something we do nearly every week, through donating, trashing and shredding.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026

According to lawyers and formerly detained immigrants who spoke to Salon, ICE and Border Patrol officers never admit to trashing or keeping these items, but that they have not been found anywhere.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2026

But taking a stand against his UK party leader still risks trashing a brand under which they both campaign.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026

I stared at the flowers and thought about just trashing them since they’d be dead by the morning anyway.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds


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