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as in removals
the getting rid of whatever is unwanted or useless
trash disposal is on Wednesday in our neighborhood
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as in sequences
the way objects in space or events in time are arranged or follow one another
the disposal of troops along the ridge
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Recent Examples of disposals
Toilets flush more often, disposals run nonstop and hoses stay on for hours to fill kiddie pools or rinse off the grill.
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Sharon Wu,
USA Today,
4 July 2026
Clean and flush out drains and disposals well after each use for food preparation.
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Meghan Overdeep,
Southern Living,
16 June 2026
The department says of the 3,077 full inspections this year, 349 of them involved food disposals.
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Jasmine Arenas,
CBS News,
20 Nov. 2025
While not all activists are the same, there are many examples of activist directors pressing for an immediate sale of the company, buybacks, special dividends, or asset disposals rather than investments in growth.
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Kai Liekefett,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
The disposals violated various state environmental and unfair competition laws.
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Jason Green,
The Mercury News,
19 Mar. 2025
The increasing number of disposals might spark concerns about Starlink debris landing over populated areas.
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Michael Kan,
PCMAG,
28 Feb. 2025
The source takes consolation in the recognition that land transfers, disposals, and transfer of mineral rights takes time — often years.
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Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
26 Feb. 2025
The company said the decline in profit for the year was due to a loss on disposals and higher restructuring costs as a result of accelerating its productivity program.
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Samantha Conti,
WWD,
13 Feb. 2025
Sharon Wu,
USA Today,
4 July 2026
Clean and flush out drains and disposals well after each use for food preparation.
—
Meghan Overdeep,
Southern Living,
16 June 2026
The department says of the 3,077 full inspections this year, 349 of them involved food disposals.
—
Jasmine Arenas,
CBS News,
20 Nov. 2025
While not all activists are the same, there are many examples of activist directors pressing for an immediate sale of the company, buybacks, special dividends, or asset disposals rather than investments in growth.
—
Kai Liekefett,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
The disposals violated various state environmental and unfair competition laws.
—
Jason Green,
The Mercury News,
19 Mar. 2025
The increasing number of disposals might spark concerns about Starlink debris landing over populated areas.
—
Michael Kan,
PCMAG,
28 Feb. 2025
The source takes consolation in the recognition that land transfers, disposals, and transfer of mineral rights takes time — often years.
—
Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
26 Feb. 2025
The company said the decline in profit for the year was due to a loss on disposals and higher restructuring costs as a result of accelerating its productivity program.
—
Samantha Conti,
WWD,
13 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disposals
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The Supreme Court paused a lower court’s block on the removals while the case is litigated.
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The warning follows a chaotic Labor Day weekend operation in Texas, when a federal judge halted overnight flights deporting Guatemalan children, intensifying scrutiny of fast-track removals.
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Unsurprisingly, no player has been involved in more passing sequences leading to shots than the 24-year-old this summer, given complete freedom to roam and dictate attacks with his abilities on the ball.
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Piercing the sterility of contemporary life with the disruptive transgression of eroticism, Silver’s film features dreamy fantasy sequences that interrupt and disrupt, drawing us expertly into its characters’ sensual and unusual interiority.
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Hosted by Ariana Madix, the reality show follows a group of young singles searching for love, with new bombshell arrivals and sudden dumpings from the Fiji villa keeping the hopefuls on their toes.
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Though the case has drawn attention because of Delvey's notoriety, all three women maintain that such rabbit dumpings happen all the time.
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To help businesses prepare, Georgia Commute Options encouraged employers to consider flexible schedules, transit use and remote work arrangements when possible.
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In these arrangements, outside investors finance lawsuits in exchange for a share of the potential payout, adding another layer of complexity to an already challenging risk landscape.
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The dispositions in the Massachusetts arrests were not immediately clear.
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Change the leader themselves — their behaviours, their habits, their dispositions.
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Under normal circumstances, distributions from a traditional 401(k) are taxed as ordinary income.
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Second, the sample was weighted using energy balancing, which finds weights by minimizing the energy distance — a statistical measure of the difference between two multivariate distributions — between the survey and the target population.
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“Disposals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disposals. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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