discard
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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
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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
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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
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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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