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U.S. junk bonds are getting badly bruised in September, with their high yields so far failing to provide enough cushion this month to withstand heightened market volatility without losses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The fund has 27% of its assets in bank loans and related holdings, 23% in junk bonds and 9% in mortgages not backed by a U.S. agency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The move to junk grade territory from BB+ to BB highlighted the project’s vulnerability to default.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The artificial-intelligence build-out has officially begun crossing over to the world of junk bonds, where investors expect to be paid more for taking on bigger risks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Invoices for money owed, receipts for purchases made, junk mail, quotes for repairs to the roof and the sink that’s leaking in the bathroom.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Atop chairs, tables, and an overstuffed sofa, black-and-white prints of junks on the Yangtze River competed for space with cancelled passports and half-century-old issues of Vogue and Collier’s.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2017

Thousands more South Vietnamese took to sea in a motley group of boats, junks, rafts and sampans.

From US News ● Apr. 30, 2015

He junks that 71-line poem, deeming it a “work of the second intensity,” which is apparently some sort of Modernist insult that we should immediately bring back into common use.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2014

The Selden map is a reminder that Chinese traders sailing in junks navigated in Asian waters centuries before the Europeans came.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2013

Big crooked-sailed junks with eyes painted on their prows so they could see where they were going.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

That decision junked Mr. Khan’s own investigatory timeline, shocking his ICC staff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

A pile of junked cars, different scale radio telescopes and an unfinished freeway ramp to nowhere are all visible from that opening train shot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2024

One early twist from the first series is junked for the second because producers know contestants will be expecting it.

From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2024

Piled on sidewalks, junked up against street curbs, and leaned against light poles, these unwieldy obstacles are a hazard for innocent citizens just trying to walk down the street.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 20, 2023

To house construction workers while the road was going in, Yutan purchased three junked buses, outfitted each with bunks and a simple barrel stove, and skidded them into the wilderness behind a D-9 Caterpillar.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

On Bluesky, Bill & Ted star Alex Winter shared that he was junking his Threads account, prompting fans to share screenshots of their own deletions.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2025

Sell or donate anything that’s usable and in good shape; recycle what you can before junking the rest.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

That would amount to a significant junking of a big chunk of the planned project.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2023

Merlino said she was stunned the commissioners voted for junking the machines and returning to old-fashioned hand counts.

From Reuters ● Nov. 6, 2022

She was taking the entire Garland value system and junking it!

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman