Thesaurus / rubbish
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Plastic rubbish in the oceans also ensnares birds, turtles and other wildlife.
LET’S LEARN ABOUT PLASTIC POLLUTIONMARIA TEMMINGAUGUST 17, 2021SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSScience, by comparison, is “full of things that sound like complete rubbish” but turn out to work remarkably well—for example, neural nets, he says.
GEOFFREY HINTON HAS A HUNCH ABOUT WHAT’S NEXT FOR AISIOBHAN ROBERTSAPRIL 16, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWPresently, one of the foremen or overlookers saw it, and wanted to know what all that rubbish had been put there for.
ASBESTOSROBERT H. JONESAnd now, Monsieur Pujol,” said he impudently, “I am willing to sell you this rubbish for the cheque.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKEShe hugged him, wheel and all, and began turning over the rubbish with great delight.
THE BOX-CAR CHILDRENGERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNERTo tell the truth, Henry had found a few things in the rubbish which he had stored in his own pocket.
THE BOX-CAR CHILDRENGERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNERAnd more than one broken flask on its way to the rubbish heap was carefully carried up the hill to the hidden family.
THE BOX-CAR CHILDRENGERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNERHe said something to the effect that his boy had committed suicide, and some rubbish about missing papers.
THE WEIGHT OF THE CROWNFRED M. WHITEThere was a grand turn-out of drawers of rubbish, all over Margaret, raising such a cloud of dust as nearly choked her.
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGEPapa, you look as if you meant something; but ours are nothing but nasty old rubbish.
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGEWORDS RELATED TO RUBBISH
- absurdity
- absurdness
- bunk
- carrying-on
- claptrap
- craziness
- dumb trick
- folly
- fool trick
- foolery
- horse feathers
- idiocy
- imbecility
- impracticality
- imprudence
- inanity
- indiscretion
- insanity
- insensibility
- irrationality
- irresponsibility
- ludicrousness
- lunacy
- madness
- mistake
- nonsense
- poppycock
- preposterousness
- rubbish
- silliness
- stupidity
- tomfoolery
- tommyrot
- twaddle
- unreasonableness
- unwiseness
- weakness
- witlessness
- zaniness
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