trash
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He grabbed his son Eric’s hand to shake it and walked out to trash the judge and the proceedings, which he’d soon appeal.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
"They basically just threw it into the trash can at this point," he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Saito stood in line for about 45 minutes to catch a whiff, which Saito said “smelled like a trash room.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Residents in the worst affected areas have vented their frustrations by setting piles on trash on fire or banging on pots and pans.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 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
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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
But the new ad campaign is facing significant backlash — with critics calling it a “new Barbie” that trashes Italy’s cultural heritage.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023
For example, in a text-processing tool that crunches a line at a time, a short line buffer can result in lossage as input from a long line overflows the buffer and trashes data beyond it.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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’ve watched hundreds of videos get trashed because Roco’s eye was twitching wrong or his jaw wasn’t clenching or the camera didn’t go all the way to the right,” said Alimzhanov.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
A wildlife haven in Ayrshire has been "trashed" due to a four-year wait over whether or not to designate the site for protection, according to environmental campaigners.
From BBC ● May 3, 2026
Deputies discovered the trashed mail near Elder Creek and Mayhew Roads in Sacramento County while conducting a cleanup of a reported homeless encampment, officials said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2025
Carlos taps on a trashed television in the street.
From "Ghost Boys" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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"You get red mist when you see them trashing your years' work and this is all you've got. And they're just trashing it," says Lemon.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Even Scott Jennings, the foul-mouthed Kentuckian with a habit of picking Derby losers and rumored to occasionally sip Tennessee whiskey instead of Kentucky bourbon, has been caught trashing the president — off camera.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
And there is the wholesale trashing of the editorial staffers of the real-life Condé Nast, here a gaggle of privileged narcissists who are accidentally infected, quarantined and treated like human garbage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
Next week's global conference on tobacco control will consider what to do about the sheer volume of cigarette butts trashing the planet, with some recommending banning them completely.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025
“You can use these bricks, do something beneficial with them. Besides, Tuttle’s would only be trashing them anyways.”
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
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