waste

Anyone not diving was invited to join the litter-picking team along the riverbank, where waste was also collected.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

It’s going to be a waste of time.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Organisers at Northampton Scuba School said they are committed to removing waste from the River Nene on a regular basis and plan to return in the coming months.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

"Polymer source material is abundantly available from consumer waste, and our catalyst system, aluminum molten salts, is very cheap," Qiu said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

That’s why he couldn’t waste time standing around whimpering.

From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis

It just wastes the strategy — and your money.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

In 1958, working-class voters and Democrats were within 5 points of each other on whether government wastes a lot of tax money.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

His 13 league goals for Brighton last season came from 12.5 expected goals, a steady return that reflects a striker who finishes at expectation and rarely wastes chances.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

“We believe Meta’s strategy diffusion wastes shareholder capital,” she wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Each side continually explores the limits of the other’s tolerance, as in flights of nuclear bombers over the Arctic wastes; the Vietnam and Afghanistan wars—a few entries from a long and dolorous list.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

PHILADELPHIA—Ed Sheeran wasted no time in addressing the controversy that has engulfed his tour when he took the stage at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on Saturday night.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

While Genghis may have been the most skilled chief among his Mongol contemporaries, his skills would have been wasted if he had been born 20 years earlier, or 200 miles to the south.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

In the age of busyness, it’s easy to worry that even a moment wasted could transform into a pile of stress, and money lost.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

Gay swished his bat in the direction of the stumps in frustration and wasted a review, his immediate future in the team vulnerable.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

He was tiny, and withered, and ancient, wasted by his century in the dark.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

"Just no point in me travelling, wasting my time while I'm getting booed," said Littler.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Without collecting race and ethnicity data in the census, these estimates could not be produced, needlessly wasting resources and endangering lives.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Executives agreed that AI is delivering outsize value in some cases, but they found that in the majority of cases, it’s wasting more money than it’s worth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

“The more time I’m spending wasting their time, they’re probably not out there trying to look for other people,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

Although Blaine was used to persistent office seekers, he became annoyed by this man who was wasting both his and the State Department's time.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow