junk

"I thought it was actually really helpful because teenagers today are really big into junk food, and don't exercise as much."

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

Each of these criteria have been used in prior studies to differentiate quality stocks from junk.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

The Environmental Protection Agency website notes that “multiple government agencies” approved the deep-ocean disposal of some refinery and chemical waste and military and radioactive junk, but it doesn’t specify DDT.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

He sees the junk that AI puts out is a shot in the arm for creatives who are doubting their own instincts.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

One wall was crowded with tacked-up plans and schematics; another was piled high with tinkerer junk; the bench TimeStar occupied was littered with snipped wires, and tools, and computer equipment.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

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

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

It’s taken a decade, but Raul Rojas and Thomas Zamora have turned a Highland Park yard of hard dirt and junked cars into a lush expanse of native plants, succulents and vegetables.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 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

Second, having what Sunak calls an honest debate about the "consensus" means junking some government promises.

From BBC ● Sep. 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

Van Dyck ponders junking this now-unwanted piece of aerodynamics.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2018

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

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman