wastebasket
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Shareholders get so little in settlement that most never collect their damages; their claim forms end up in the wastebasket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
These commitments are important, as they give Kennedy something to wad up and christen his wastebasket with when he steps into his new office.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2025
This trend should be in the same wastebasket as mullets, microwave dinners and inflated lips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2024
Add a small rug, plants and a wastebasket, and install organizers to hold your office supplies.
From Washington Post ● May 25, 2021
—Playing basketball with a rolled-up sock and a wastebasket in Rob’s bedroom, ignoring you and laughing when you said to cut out all that noise.
From "Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon M. Draper
As a housemate, he was catastrophic—overturning wastebaskets, ransacking drawers and drenching manuscripts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
When that happens, residents are forced to defecate in wastebaskets in their rooms and then, he said, take “the walk of shame” to deposit their feces in hallway trash rooms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
The girls mostly watched TV, though Nichol, who was more active, was given small tasks by her mother to keep her busy, like emptying all the wastebaskets and replacing the liners.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2022
Other scientists believe the structures are akin to wastebaskets that contain remnants of broken-down cells or even infectious or hazardous substances.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2018
On Saturdays Claudia emptied the wastebaskets, a task she despised.
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
