litter
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Inside, pieces of metal roofing, concrete and broken glass litter the floor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
They also spruced up the streets, picking litter, weeding, and painting bins.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
On the second evening, the winners were dressed as characters from “Desperate Living,” complete with four men in leather attire carrying their friend, who was dressed like a queen on a litter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
For example, before vaccines kick in, sharing a litter box with another house cat risks transferring parasites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Late one evening, while lying on a blanket in the garage, Duchess gave birth to a litter of slick, potato-size puppies.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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Those wildcats have successfully reproduced and the team working on the project are aware of at least 20 wild-born litters to released females since 2024.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
It is the only other highly ranked "monotocous" species, meaning it typically produces a single offspring per pregnancy rather than litters.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 22, 2026
A female typically has around six litters a year, each with up to 12 pups.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
They sleep together, clean each other and, despite being from different litters, generally behave like siblings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025
Dany had freed the slaves, yet palanquins, litters, and sedan chairs still choked the I streets as before, and none of them floated magically through the air.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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Riley’s career has been littered with undisciplined and thuggish behavior by USC football players “just caught up in the game.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Online marketplace Etsy is littered with unofficial Clawd products; one merchant sells an unsanctioned 9.4-inch plush version of the crab for $148.23.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
It was the latest in a string of incidents that have littered Woods' recent years.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
But television history is littered with fine ideas that don’t pan out in practice.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
The floor of his locker was littered with empty snack bags that Jasmine had slid through the door vent between classes over the last two days.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
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There are large fragments of salt-eaten machinery littering the shore, relics of the island’s martial heyday.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
In the 2023-24 season, widespread fan action including littering pitches with tennis balls and chocolate coins resulted in the scrapping of an investment deal, despite the proposal winning majority support of clubs.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
The latter which was backed up by AI pictures posted to his account with drones and planes and military gear littering the rooftop.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
After sunrise, villagers in Qusra, near the city of Nablus, walked through the scorched remains of the Al-Rahma mosque, broken tiles littering the ground, videos showed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
The tide brought more to us, littering the wrack line with chunks of it that we gathered like shell seekers who knew too much about frostbite.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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