trash

Mountains of uncollected trash fill the streets of the crumbling capital, Havana.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The dancers’ slouchy leg warmers and trash bag pants keep their muscles supple and ready for the energetic spirit of George Balanchine’s “Who Cares?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

The first time he decided to trash one of the cameras, a self-styled vigilante wearing all black and known as Nomark says he was "super nervous."

From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026

Outside, he said, trash had not been picked up.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 8, 2026

“Imogene just said he did. Nobody buried the snake. The janitor threw it in the trash masher. I saw him.”

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson

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

For example, in a text-processing tool that crunches a line at a time, a short line buffer can result in lossage as input from a long line overflows the buffer and trashes data beyond it.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele

The worst ones seem to happen during bear markets, when the winning stocks of the preceding boom get trashed.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

Longoria has had mixed experiences with Airbnb—she still remembers the night a guest threw a party and trashed the place.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

In November, I wrote about the shameful condition of Robert F. Kennedy Inspiration Park in Koreatown, where the monument and grounds had been vandalized, trashed and fenced off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2026

Simplicity is elevated, subtlety is trashed, and complexity decried.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026

Seeing as I’d just trashed her future kid’s father, I didn’t feel like I could say no.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

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

But taking a stand against his UK party leader still risks trashing a brand under which they both campaign.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026

"Scientists trashing each other in the media is not constructive."

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

And there is the wholesale trashing of the editorial staffers of the real-life Condé Nast, here a gaggle of privileged narcissists who are accidentally infected, quarantined and treated like human garbage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

The storm raged for two nights, trashing the coastline, tearing away anything that wasn’t tied down.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi