dumps

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Also included are the sites of underground gas storage facilities, refineries, fuel terminals, legacy pollution sites, active industrial sites, landfills, dumps and recycling centers.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Welcome to this weekend’s edition of the Surge, a politics newsletter that, in light of the hantavirus outbreak, sadly will be canceling all of our future vacations to rat-infested garbage dumps.

From Slate • May 9, 2026

Despite the lift on Friday, Ares stock has been down in the dumps, with the shares losing a quarter of their value in the last six months.

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

Consumers—long the engine of the U.S. economy—feel solidly in the dumps.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

Her eyes were vacant, like the eyes of those mad people who wandered around the roadside garbage dumps in town, pulling grimy, tom canvas bags with their life fragments inside.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie