jetsam
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The term refers to the letters, advisories, online FAQs, interpretations and other administrative flotsam and jetsam that agencies generate to explain how they will interpret laws and rules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The cavernous space is mostly filled with chairs, desks, filing cabinets and other bureaucratic jetsam.
From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2024
Nearly a year and a half after the full-scale Russian invasion, the war remains a supply line of sorts for Reva, a never-ending tide tossing up new flotsam and jetsam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
They will tell you he was the flotsam and jetsam of a sport which was becoming unmoored from reality.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2023
Already men were labouring to clear a way through the jetsam of battle; and now out from the Gate came some bearing litters.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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