wastebasket
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Shareholders get so little in settlement that most never collect their damages; their claim forms end up in the wastebasket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
These commitments are important, as they give Kennedy something to wad up and christen his wastebasket with when he steps into his new office.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2025
This trend should be in the same wastebasket as mullets, microwave dinners and inflated lips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2024
Add a small rug, plants and a wastebasket, and install organizers to hold your office supplies.
From Washington Post ● May 25, 2021
Grayson threw the greasy zep wrapper into the wastebasket.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
As a housemate, he was catastrophic—overturning wastebaskets, ransacking drawers and drenching manuscripts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
When that happens, residents are forced to defecate in wastebaskets in their rooms and then, he said, take “the walk of shame” to deposit their feces in hallway trash rooms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
She herself had emptied the wastebaskets as a little girl.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2022
He was socially awkward, muttered to himself, belched noisily in public and urinated in office wastebaskets.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2022
On Saturdays Claudia emptied the wastebaskets, a task she despised.
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
