junk

Indeed, it’s difficult to estimate how space junk is currently orbiting our planet.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

Some experts have warned that amassing too much space junk around Earth could lead to a dangerous chain reaction of collisions known as the "Kessler syndrome."

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

After major credit-ratings firms downgraded Whirlpool’s debt to junk status, it raised money by selling new shares, and conserved money by suspending the dividend it had paid for 70 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

But today, with our easy access to cheap, calorie-dense junk food and sedentary routines, those same adaptations that once helped us to survive can cause us a few issues.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

He added some Italian junk food to the basket, just to sort of disguise his more suspicious purchases, then dumped his stuff at the register.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

Trails of frayed odd ribbons and precious bits of gift wrap and other junks of the past.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

The city’s common-law heritage—which nominally rejected retroactivity in criminal law—was junked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025

Economic policy was tightened; meaning policies were junked if they weren’t seen as affordable.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 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

But since she’s saddled with the boy, Flora foists a junked guitar on him as a birthday present.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 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

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

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2023

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

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

From Reuters ● Nov. 6, 2022

It should continue to work on the Communities feature so people can chat about things they’re interested in rather than junking up their followers’ timelines with stuff they won’t care about.

From The Verge ● Apr. 25, 2022

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

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman