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discard

[dih-skahrd, dis-kahrd] / dɪˈskɑrd, ˈdɪs kɑrd /


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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

To remove that bias, the Dallas Fed designed its index to discard the 31% biggest increases in a given month, but only the 24% biggest decreases.

From The Wall Street Journal May 31, 2026

She testified that she dropped him off near the Spohr’s home and later saw him discard items from his backpack after they crossed the Nevada state line.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 27, 2026

Without the agreement Scotland fans would have had to leave their sporrans in lockers outside or discard them altogether.

From BBC Feb. 25, 2026

“None of your damned shadowy Karhidish metaphors, now, Estraven. I waive shifgrethor; I discard it. Will you answer me?”

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Back in the diamond belt of Sierra Leone, Daniel discards another sieve-load of gravel.

From BBC Jun. 3, 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

"This gives us a kind of 'periodic table' of AI methods. Different methods fall into different cells, based on which information a method's loss function retains or discards."

From Science Daily Mar. 3, 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

The helm came off, and went to join the rest of the discards.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

That includes used oxygen cylinders, discarded climbing gear and human excrement.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

That foil packet tucked neatly with your dry noodles is meant to be used, not discarded.

From Salon Jul. 19, 2026

Saar traces her habit of rescuing discarded materials to her childhood.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

Any signal showing essentially no Doppler change was considered almost certainly to have originated on Earth and was discarded.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

Once he and Mother had discarded filling stations as a possibility, the only alternative was the woods.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

All have moved on since then, while another chunky collection of caps has been lost through the discarding of Jack Leach, Zak Crawley and Ollie Pope.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2026

Schrader said it typically takes him four to six months to fully develop a screenplay idea, a process of testing, discarding and gradually refining concepts until they either strengthen or collapse under scrutiny.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2026

We are rewarding technical knowledge and discarding the other two.

From MarketWatch May 7, 2026

That means, in part, becoming more and more of a closed ecosystem, discarding customization methods that might take you away from official big-name apps or, worse, leave a cash-generating option on the table.

From Slate May 3, 2026

Tfet, I also feel pangs of guilt even for thinking of discarding it like that.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak




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