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Cooks had to track any discard that couldn’t be repurposed—including food that came back from the dining room uneaten on each plate—before emptying it into the composter.

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When Nicole Anzia helps clients get their homes in order, she sees certain items time and time again, and they usually end up in the discard bin.

And in a way that was right, because he was keen to save the best bits of it and to discard the worst.

His past lives all display a remarkable bloodlust, one he continues to discard.

So maybe what I've really got here is an Old Master discard being used – by me, the museum visitor – as a modern objet trouvé.

Discard your alcohol and dispose of your pork “The Muslims Are Coming!”

Anyone walking down a Manhattan street on trash day knows that New Yorkers discard some spectacular things.

William, indeed, was not the man to discard an old friend for a new one.

The vote which required the King to discard them merely because they were what he himself was seemed to him a personal affront.

He would discard any doctrine which, logically carried out, led to absurdity.

"Yes; she was too genuinely a lady to encourage his suit, then discard him at the last moment," he concluded, despondently.

Here you are, slouchin' around without a dressin' jacket er slippers en talkin' 'bout an ole song that's in the discard.

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On this page you'll find 1871 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to discard, such as: chunk, fragment, grain, hunk, lump, and morsel.

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

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