as in removal
the getting rid of whatever is unwanted or useless
that old chair needs junking
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as in dumping
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
we'll have to junk this old car
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for junking
Noun
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While no service can guarantee the complete removal of your data from the internet, a data removal service is really a smart choice.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
13 Sep. 2025 -
With Brown's impending court date set for later this month, Republicans are calling for the removal of Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes, who lawmakers argue didn't hold Brown accountable for his past alleged crimes.—
Tierra Cunningham,
ABC News,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The last is dumping iron dust into the Southern Ocean to provoke phytoplankton blooms that would suck heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, a move that set off a backlash when an American entrepreneur tried it off Canada in 2012.—
Alec Luhn,
Scientific American,
11 Sep. 2025
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The work is part of a larger project with researchers across the region to assess the San Pedro Basin sites, where decades of dumping chemicals like DDT and other pollutants have raised environmental and human health risks.—
Maura Fox,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Defensive coordinator Chris Ash figured the wealth of pass rushers at his disposal could get to Carson Beck with just four defenders.—
Pete Sampson,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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Daniel Trombone developed a depth-perception system for explosive ordnance disposal robots while completing his electronics engineering technology degree at the University of Arkansas, Grantham, according to a US Air Force release published on September 2.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The reason for the debris is not that people are discarding the cookies but, rather, the way they’re sold.—
Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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These layers are then reorganized into tensor networks, which retain the most important patterns in the layer’s weights while discarding redundant information that isn’t contributing much to overall performance.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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With more and more people ditching larger sizes, the store has had to be reset multiple times.—
Kevin Williams,
CNBC,
12 Sep. 2025
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Give and Take All the new iPhones use eSIM worldwide, ditching physical SIM cards for good.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
10 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Glabe’s sales follow those of board member Eric Swider, who has also sharply reduced his holdings, unloading around 165,000 shares since November.—
Zach Everson,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Dockworkers were unloading shipping containers from another vessel that was berthed at Pier G before the incident, with truck drivers moving containers to and from the terminal.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
Verb
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On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed scrapping a 2010 program that requires polluters to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions — the country’s most comprehensive tracking system.—
Natasha Bracken,
semafor.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The club could have George Valera, Chase DeLauter, Nolan Jones, Noel and Angel Martínez scrapping for opportunities in the spring.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Despite spending the whole three-hour awards show telling people that their overlong speeches were losing the Boys & Girls Club of America money, the bit was a ruse.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
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Resilience, in the simplest terms, is the ability to recover from challenges, adapt to change and keep moving forward without losing your core sense of purpose.—
Raquel Gomes,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Junking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junking. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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