discarding

Example Sentences

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By discarding more of the increases, the Dallas Fed index inadvertently understated the upward trend in inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

Breeding, says Paul Arens of Wageningen University & Research, "is the art of throwing away", discarding those plants which don't match your ambitions, but it also the art of multiplying what's left.

From BBC • May 14, 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

Women, I know, sometimes have themselves shorn at those watershed moments of their lives, like discarding the memory of a man.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee