trash
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Mechanical post-sorting of household trash nationwide would lift Denmark’s recycling rate by almost 5 percentage points toward EU requirements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
While most schools reopened Wednesday, more than 500 remained at least partially closed with students blocking doors with mounds of trash bins.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
The city also began charging the department for the cost of water, electricity, trash pickup and other city services.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
If you look for a bystander to trash talk your beloved, you will surely find one.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
He spins on his heel, grabs and wads a paper towel in one smooth move, shoots it into the trash can, and is gone.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
Only firms in desperate need of cash sell more shares when their valuations are low, because it dilutes existing shareholders and trashes the share price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
An attorney who trashes the rule of law must know that eventually she will be barred from practicing it.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025
Spawned when the body trashes old red blood cells, the molecule is harmful refuse and a sign of illness.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 8, 2023
Moses Castillo, a retired Los Angeles police detective who runs an Instagram account that praises Villanueva and trashes his opponents — including me — was subdued.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
He that wades so far as to wet and foul himself, cares not how much he trashes further.—South.
From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou
Evans said: "We were concerned a lot of people would want to go up the mountain to see the graffiti, and the hillside would get trashed."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The worst ones seem to happen during bear markets, when the winning stocks of the preceding boom get trashed.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
He was an intensive user of the Fed’s workhorse economic simulations even though he frequently trashed the models when staffers included the results in briefing materials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
A wildlife haven in Ayrshire has been "trashed" due to a four-year wait over whether or not to designate the site for protection, according to environmental campaigners.
From BBC ● May 3, 2026
The report Eisman wrote trashed all of the subprime originators; one by one, he exposed the deceptions of a dozen companies.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
“Like I said, I still have feelings about a young man trashing his whole life like that. But no.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Getting rid of stuff is something we do nearly every week, through donating, trashing and shredding.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026
“Absolutely not! They made their decision and took the low road to unearned riches to play in a subpar league, while trashing the PGA Tour on the way out, showing a complete lack of sportsmanship.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
According to lawyers and formerly detained immigrants who spoke to Salon, ICE and Border Patrol officers never admit to trashing or keeping these items, but that they have not been found anywhere.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2026
“You can use these bricks, do something beneficial with them. Besides, Tuttle’s would only be trashing them anyways.”
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
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