trash
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In the western city of Rennes, around 20 people set up a barricade using trash bins and large pallets on the outskirts of a shopping mall.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
Social media has found a culprit: Passengers who use the bags to store trash often get blamed for exacerbating the scarcity problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The Libyan authorities handed over a plastic "trash bag" containing some of his belongings, including a Quran, a prayer rug, clothing, toiletries, and medicine.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
While most schools reopened Wednesday, more than 500 remained at least partially closed with students blocking doors with mounds of trash bins.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
I dump the pieces into the trash can, then run downstairs to retrieve my other postcards.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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Only firms in desperate need of cash sell more shares when their valuations are low, because it dilutes existing shareholders and trashes the share price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
An attorney who trashes the rule of law must know that eventually she will be barred from practicing it.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025
Spawned when the body trashes old red blood cells, the molecule is harmful refuse and a sign of illness.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 8, 2023
Moses Castillo, a retired Los Angeles police detective who runs an Instagram account that praises Villanueva and trashes his opponents — including me — was subdued.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
For example, in a text-processing tool that crunches a line at a time, a short line buffer can result in lossage as input from a long line overflows the buffer and trashes data beyond it.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele
Expect Raman, whom City Hall opponents have long trashed as conflict-averse, to focus on a message of possibility and positivity while holding her ground and striking back — and hard — when necessary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Evans said: "We were concerned a lot of people would want to go up the mountain to see the graffiti, and the hillside would get trashed."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The worst ones seem to happen during bear markets, when the winning stocks of the preceding boom get trashed.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
In March 1989, a midday tube rupture at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo sent cleaning solvent-filled steam into the air and trashed the paint jobs on about 2,000 neighboring cars and trucks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Think about it: There are 25 portables that are completely trashed, completely out of commission.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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“Like I said, I still have feelings about a young man trashing his whole life like that. But no.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Getting rid of stuff is something we do nearly every week, through donating, trashing and shredding.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026
"You get red mist when you see them trashing your years' work and this is all you've got. And they're just trashing it," says Lemon.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
“Absolutely not! They made their decision and took the low road to unearned riches to play in a subpar league, while trashing the PGA Tour on the way out, showing a complete lack of sportsmanship.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
The storm raged for two nights, trashing the coastline, tearing away anything that wasn’t tied down.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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