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ditch

[dich] / dɪtʃ /




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Al suggests another possible outcome: “We can all end up in a ditch out in the Mojave.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Chairman Kevin Warsh’s decision to ditch forward guidance and take more of his cues from markets has muddied the waters for investors when it comes to monetary policy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Just last week 23 organisations wrote to the first minister to call on him to ditch the policy.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Even if they want to ditch the industrial food products, healthier alternatives cost more -- and in poverty stricken areas of East Tennessee, that's a non-starter.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

Lloyd was chunking rocks at fence posts and diving in and out of the ditch with J.W.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

There are more than 100 ways to restore peatland, including blocking drains and ditches and re-establishing bog vegetation.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

Excavations uncovered field systems, ditches and enclosures, including horse paddocks, as well as the remains of farm buildings and storage structures.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

The production, co-directed by Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch, ditches the feline masquerade for a parade of costumes designed with unflagging inspiration by Qween Jean.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026

On and around the dry lake bed, water gushes from wells into ditches to fields of tomatoes, cotton, almonds, grapes and other crops.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

Her heels gouged ditches in the soil as she struggled to stand, to push up, to run away.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

It was ditched after 54 minutes of England's second game against Denmark never to be seen again.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

But over the past couple of years, every other person seems to have ditched their headphones and is brandishing their phones like radios set to a nightmare station.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The suspect ditched his bike in the Broadway-Manchester neighborhood, northeast of where Interstates 105 and 110 intersect, and ran off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

She ditched the dress for a more casual outfit to watch the night’s headliner, Charli XCX.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

But Joey said that wasn’t funny, because if we didn’t find Chas and he got into trouble or something, it would look like we’d stolen his car and ditched him.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith

Amateur male runners are ditching shorts for skintight speedsuits, but not because they make them faster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The move follows a summer punctuated by reports of artificial-intelligence systems industrywide going rogue, and marks a rare case of a major AI developer ditching a new release because of safety concerns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Opponents of ditching testing requirements argued that the exams are a key tool to uniformly predict academic success from students of divergent backgrounds, as well as schools that may issue grades differently.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Leyshon was recovered about two hours after the ditching and was pronounced dead in hospital, while the other two crew members suffered minor injuries.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

When she’s satisfied that my mother is ditching services, she adds, “I haven’t seen her in months.”

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan




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