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dustbin

noun as in garbage can

noun as in trash can

noun as in wastepaper basket

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Public time based on notions of equality, the common good, and justice fades into the dustbin of a white-washed history.

From Salon

“People used to throw rocks at each other’s stores and look in dustbins to see client lists,” Boyd said.

"This punitive policy needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history where it belongs."

From BBC

To do so, she twisted or ignored precedent, misconstrued statutes and cast into the dustbin of history decades of practice.

From Salon

But many were not so fortunate, collapsing on roadsides, around dustbins, and dying on the pavements - strangers in a city they thought would help them.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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