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floating wreckage

NOUN
flotsam and jetsam
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But the next day, news reports made clear there was no mistake: A fishing boat found floating wreckage including two masts, one painted black and the other yellow - matching the Hudson.

From Washington Times Sep. 27, 2019

A week after the Airbus A320 crashed carrying 66 people, investigators still have no clear picture of its final moments, with only scattered floating wreckage and some human remains found.

From The Guardian May 26, 2016

“One item that I may give Swann is an actual piece of the ship picked up as floating wreckage by the Minia in April of 1912,” he wrote in a recent e-mail.

From New York Times Oct. 6, 2011

In the water, Mrs. Li put Patsy on a mass of floating wreckage.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sea was strewn with fragments of floating wreckage.

From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman




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