discard

"To understand one day that you think you're important to somebody, and then all of a sudden you're not. They discard you like a piece of garbage."

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

"Consumers who have any recalled product should discard it immediately and not consume it. Refunds are available at the location of purchase," it added.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Nationally, the survey found that 43% of respondents always or usually discard food near or past the date on the label, up from 37% in 2016.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

It is easier for a newcomer to discard a tool than for the person who spent years using it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

I reflected on how mass imprisonment has littered the national landscape with carceral monuments of reckless and excessive punishment and ravaged communities with our hopeless willingness to condemn and discard the most vulnerable among us.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

They agree to meet again, but Kip completely discards his Western life.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

This measurement, which has critics and fans, discards the categories with the most extreme inflation readings on both the high and low ends.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

David: Steve Benen for MS NOW: Trump’s ‘God Squad’ discards the administration’s supposed interest in whale protections; Ella Nilsen for CNN: Only 50 of these whales are left in existence.

From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2026

Most of these businesses offer pickup at the end of the season and have partnerships with farms, where they drop off discards that become food for animals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

That evening Mrs. Moss prepared her infamous sour broccoli soup, which she made from half-rotten vegetables that she got from a man who delivered crates of supermarket discards.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

The researchers process PET plastic, discarded corn stalks and leaves, and other biomass using a proprietary technique known as oxidative hydrothermal dissolution.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

The sisters got creative and rummaged in thrift shops, looking for discarded treasure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

A source told The Times that they were looking at the possibility that discarded ashes from the vineyard sparked the major fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

Many tonnes of meat in the processing stage had to be discarded.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

At each move, they discarded everything they could leave behind, and sent off Mia’s art to Anita to be sold, which meant they’d never see it again.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

I generally prefer, as a strategic matter, an elevation of shared values—inclusive, connective, moral language such as reclaiming, rather than reinventing or discarding.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

AFP reporters saw hundreds of people -- men, women and children -- entering Ceuta, discarding flotation rings and clothes used in their crossing.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

Billy Smith—his hair loose, wearing a dress, and barefoot after discarding his low-heel pumps—danced the woman invoked in the song.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

He told officers he did not know the items were in his bag and would be fine discarding them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

The present tense is moving forward, discarding concept after concept, and I am off to the side somewhere, fiddling with egg tempera and flat surfaces, as if the twentieth century has never happened.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood