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discard

[dih-skahrd, dis-kahrd] / dɪˈskɑrd, ˈdɪs kɑrd /


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Anyone who has these products should not eat them and should discard them immediately.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

Nationally, the survey found that 43% of respondents always or usually discard food near or past the date on the label, up from 37% in 2016.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

The scene in which Biff almost violently embraces Willy and tries—in vain—to make him discard his illusions scorches with its sadness.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 10, 2026

In torrential rain, Senegal goalkeeper Edouard Mendy regularly dried his gloves, but the ball boys repeatedly tried to discard his towel.

From BBC Mar. 18, 2026

When she looked up, Robin was watching her, her hand frozen on the discard pile.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

Back in the diamond belt of Sierra Leone, Daniel discards another sieve-load of gravel.

From BBC Jun. 3, 2026

This measurement, which has critics and fans, discards the categories with the most extreme inflation readings on both the high and low ends.

From Barron's May 6, 2026

David: Steve Benen for MS NOW: Trump’s ‘God Squad’ discards the administration’s supposed interest in whale protections; Ella Nilsen for CNN: Only 50 of these whales are left in existence.

From Slate Apr. 2, 2026

"This gives us a kind of 'periodic table' of AI methods. Different methods fall into different cells, based on which information a method's loss function retains or discards."

From Science Daily Mar. 3, 2026

As the day wore on, the pile of discards grew.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

That includes used oxygen cylinders, discarded climbing gear and human excrement.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

That foil packet tucked neatly with your dry noodles is meant to be used, not discarded.

From Salon Jul. 19, 2026

Saar traces her habit of rescuing discarded materials to her childhood.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

Any signal showing essentially no Doppler change was considered almost certainly to have originated on Earth and was discarded.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

Then it bent over the discarded flesh and fussed over it, doing things with its hands that I couldn’t see.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

All have moved on since then, while another chunky collection of caps has been lost through the discarding of Jack Leach, Zak Crawley and Ollie Pope.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2026

Base-editing technology could one day be used to help parents avoid discarding embryos in the IVF process.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

We are rewarding technical knowledge and discarding the other two.

From MarketWatch May 7, 2026

That means, in part, becoming more and more of a closed ecosystem, discarding customization methods that might take you away from official big-name apps or, worse, leave a cash-generating option on the table.

From Slate May 3, 2026

He tested the weight in his hands before discarding it for a smaller option.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin




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