flotsam

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Served over ice in a short glass and topped with fruit-salad flotsam, the elixir is lightly caffeinated, mildly fruity and as refreshing as stepping out of the Hanoi humidity into full-blast air conditioning.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

"It was impossible not to conclude," he later wrote, that for Powell "the struggle was about achieving long-term objectives, not simply a mastery of the flotsam and jetsam of current events".

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2024

Moreover, Musk’s unbanning of previously banned bad posters has resulted in some truly vile flotsam returning to the platform.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2023

Bent fences and waterlogged front lawns were the norm, with small bridges clogged with flotsam and closed because of the destabilizing impact of so much charging water.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2023

Mitochondria are minute, bean-shaped objects, hundreds of which bob about like so much flotsam in the warm, salty envelope of the cell.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann