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garbage can



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"They don't see us as a town. To them we're just another garbage can," she said.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

“No Black person’s ever asked me why Mookie threw the garbage can through the window,” he notes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

Once, he even called out a Reds player’s lack of hustle on the basepaths — and ended up stuffed in a garbage can.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025

People snow skiing down Bourbon Street in New Orleans, garbage can lids and plastic baby pools used as makeshift sleds, snowmen on the beach; it was something out of this world.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2025

So by the time my mother discovered it while vacuuming, the stain was as wide as a garbage can lid, and dark with mold.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt




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