littered

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America’s great national parks and wildernesses must be littered with dead relatives.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

Ian Young, who lives near the car park on a road where there are no parking restrictions, said a minority of overnight campers had used his gardens as toilets and littered the streets.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

From DeLorean to Tucker, the road to building a better car is littered with brilliant ideas and empty bank accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

The part where the laser guides the VSELs around Scott’s body is perhaps the most dubious of a procedure littered with doubt.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

Bull turned toward the far wall and, giving a signal to the other pilots in the room, all thirteen of them hurled their glasses into the fireplace already littered with bright shards of glass.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy