dumping

Example Sentences

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“This stretch is a common dumping ground,” she told me, eyes hidden behind sunglasses under a floppy sun hat.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

Investors are dumping Netflix’s shares after Chairman and co-founder Reed Hastings said he would leave the board.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Investors spent the past few weeks dumping high-risk, momentum-oriented plays, and memory stocks were the poster child for that trend.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

And that’s why, after the No Kings marches in October, Donald Trump himself posted a video created with artificial intelligence showing him dumping human waste on the protesters.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

As for the Delaware, it was a handy dumping ground for anything and everything—household and human waste, manufacturing rubbish, and debris from the hundreds of ships that visited the city every year.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy