waste

Coal ash, red mud, and mine tailings are usually treated as major waste problems.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

No one wants to waste the weekend haggling over $20.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Online thrifters like that they save money, help reduce waste and can ignore trends dictated by the industry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

“I wouldn’t do that to her, I wouldn’t do that to you. I wouldn’t waste everyone’s time.”

From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2026

Theseus found his way out of the labyrinth by trailing a thread behind him; to Penelope this seemed a waste of good embroidery floss.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

It just wastes the strategy — and your money.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

His 13 league goals for Brighton last season came from 12.5 expected goals, a steady return that reflects a striker who finishes at expectation and rarely wastes chances.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

I still think the film largely wastes its strong cast, but I framed it badly.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Aspiring to anything more, in Simon’s view, simply wastes time and energy, and in his book he explores this concept by applying it to himself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

We might even imagine a kind of Martian Johnny Appleseed, robot or human, roaming the frozen polar wastes in an endeavor that benefits only the generations of humans to come.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

PHILADELPHIA—Ed Sheeran wasted no time in addressing the controversy that has engulfed his tour when he took the stage at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on Saturday night.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

While Genghis may have been the most skilled chief among his Mongol contemporaries, his skills would have been wasted if he had been born 20 years earlier, or 200 miles to the south.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Scotland has an abundance of wind and much of the energy from it is currently wasted because the transmission infrastructure isn't large enough to carry it from where it is generated to the consumers.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

In the age of busyness, it’s easy to worry that even a moment wasted could transform into a pile of stress, and money lost.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

Unlike most Hararis, though, she was not a trainwreck who wasted all her energy trying to look normal and avoiding direct eye contact with the ghosts who liked bothering her in public.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Without collecting race and ethnicity data in the census, these estimates could not be produced, needlessly wasting resources and endangering lives.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

When he emerged from the bush 18 days later, he was charged with wasting police resources.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

He made remarkable progress up through the field from 19th on the grid, wasting no time in picking off cars in front, minimising any loss from overtaking to his overall race time.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

“The more time I’m spending wasting their time, they’re probably not out there trying to look for other people,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

Maybe I was wasting my time even thinking about it.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor