detritus
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But any visitor who has circled the White House on foot knows that it’s a decidedly wearisome experience, punctuated by the detritus of security barriers and by efforts to keep the public at bay.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
It was still full of stranded belongings and furniture and detritus, but there were no neighbors there anymore.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026
He worries that even more detritus will wash up on the beach in the future.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026
Dotting the shoreline is a bleak expanse of detritus: timeworn pumps, tottering derricks, wayward cranes and aging pipelines.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026
By October 1940, they began to sift through the concentrated bacterial detritus, painstakingly separating each chemical component, and testing each fraction for its capacity to transmit genetic information.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing detritus
Lord of the Flies
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Just Mercy
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