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Vote counting was under way early Friday after an unusual English by-election shunned by mainstream parties, pitting influential hard-right leader Nigel Farage against Count Binface, a man with a rubbish bin on his head.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Count Binface, the self-styled intergalactic space warrior, has again taken centre stage in UK politics, wearing a giant silver rubbish bin on his head.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
More embarrassing still is that polling of the general public reveals that, as a whole nation, we would actually rather the bin got it.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026
But in a pantheon of colourful characters, Count Binface, a man wearing a rubbish bin over his head, is stealing the show.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
It’s there, painted in dazzling white on the dark metal bin.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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His custom-built cutlery bins, meanwhile, are exactly proportional to the length of his spoons and knives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
They were formed with cones, shipping pallets, chairs, trash bins, or even neighbors inside a traffic circle.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Goals were awarded instead of points, dribbling outlawed and rings with nets replaced the bins.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Using a plastic bag to collect the soil and disposing of it in the garbage — not green yard waste bins — will help to reduce the spread of airborne chemicals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
First they stopped by the alley where Papa kept the gray trash cans and blue recycling bins.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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Even when Joe Hawkins was binned after five minutes Wales grew stronger.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
However, Quins had fly-half Smith binned in the second half and La Rochelle took advantage to draw level through unconverted tries by former England wing Jack Nowell and scrum-half Thomas Berjon.
From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026
Tice was repeatedly asked about whether the election pledges - pitched by Farage at the time as a "contract" with the British people - had been binned.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025
That plan was binned within eight minutes after Nicolo Tresoldi's early opener was followed by right-back Max Aarons' red card.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2025
There, he dutifully produced ambitious, unworkable proposals that were read with amused tolerance and promptly binned.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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A mother says penalties for binning batteries should be clearer after being handed a "soul-destroying" £11,500 fine.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026
"Together, we pioneered the trio binning method for genome assembly. This approach was also published in Nature Communications."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 12, 2026
Opening windows where possible and practising good hygiene - using and then binning a tissue for coughs and sneezes and washing your hands - can help prevent this.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025
This new information about olfactory genes in cats was made possible through a new approach to genome sequencing called trio binning, which allows researchers to sequence the most difficult regions of a genome.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2023
When binning the wine the bottles are held by their necks and slid into their places with such ease and safety that a child might be entrusted with the work.
From Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines by Henry Vizetelly