junk

In 2004, he was working at a junk yard and living in a house in National City, an associate told the FBI.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

It’s junk, and Eminem seems to know it.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

Speculative grade or junk bonds are riskier, although the higher yields are enticing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

If spreads keep accelerating and that stress starts moving from junk bonds into investment-grade credit, that yellow light gets a lot closer to red.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

She flipped the switch, and the darkness dissolved into wobbly piles of dust-covered junk and crooked cardboard-box towers.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

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

Tied up along its shores was every conceivable kind of watercraft— Chinese junks, tugboats, rickety houseboats, old schooners, and barges heaped with jumbles of industrial cargo.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

OpenAI unilaterally junked their three-month-old billion-dollar deal without warning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

More than 400 of the UK's church pipe organs are being junked or falling silent due to neglect every year.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 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

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

Even if every Peugeot in the world were simultaneously junked and sold for scrap metal, Peugeot SA would not disappear.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

It’s really hard to see any business rationale for junking a perfectly good brand identity and replacing it with a name and logo almost everyone finds off-putting.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023

At Brunello, a town near the Swiss border in Northern Italy, data management business Pure Storage is putting a data centre on a digital diet by trimming bits and bytes and junking surplus information.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 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