wastebasket
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Shareholders get so little in settlement that most never collect their damages; their claim forms end up in the wastebasket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Do it once, but make sure to sit beside a wastebasket.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025
These commitments are important, as they give Kennedy something to wad up and christen his wastebasket with when he steps into his new office.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2025
This trend should be in the same wastebasket as mullets, microwave dinners and inflated lips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2024
In a metal-wire wastebasket was a basketball and a football and a baseball mitt still cradling a stained and scruffed-up ball.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
As a housemate, he was catastrophic—overturning wastebaskets, ransacking drawers and drenching manuscripts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
When that happens, residents are forced to defecate in wastebaskets in their rooms and then, he said, take “the walk of shame” to deposit their feces in hallway trash rooms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
She herself had emptied the wastebaskets as a little girl.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2022
Rainwater often fell through the roof of the Mercury building, forcing employees to use buckets, wastebaskets and even a potted plant to catch the drips.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2020
The hat was the first of myriad lines of signature products: toys, commemorative wastebaskets, two varieties of oranges.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
