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Recent Examples of junkyard
The Accent was set on fire and later taken to a junkyard, where it was recovered by authorities, Toczylowski said.
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Doha Madani, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
But what seems like a windfall quickly spirals into a chain of betrayal, junkyard standoffs and escalating violence.
—Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
In Marietta, with meager funds, Marcus Brachman started a junkyard.
—Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Aug. 2025
Standout works include a series of images by Tony Albert and David Charles Collins depicting kids posing as Superhero charactres on of trashed cars in a junkyard.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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Doha Madani, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
But what seems like a windfall quickly spirals into a chain of betrayal, junkyard standoffs and escalating violence.
—Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
In Marietta, with meager funds, Marcus Brachman started a junkyard.
—Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Aug. 2025
Standout works include a series of images by Tony Albert and David Charles Collins depicting kids posing as Superhero charactres on of trashed cars in a junkyard.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for junkyard
Noun
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Most of it ends up in landfills or the ocean.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Mar. 2026
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Connecticut’s troubles with trash began in 2022, when the state closed the Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority’s waste-to-energy incinerator in Hartford, resulting in nearly 1 million tons of trash each year heading to landfills in Pennsylvania and Ohio.—
John Moritz,
Hartford Courant,
15 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The Shark Matrix™ Plus 2-in-1 Self-Empty Robot Vacuum & Mop handles it all — carpets, hard floors, pet hair, and tricky corners — while emptying its own dustbin.—
StackCommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
12 Mar. 2026
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Thankfully, city officials—prodded by tenants and small-business owners, clergy and homeowners, and, yes, some landlords—rejected advice to consign neighborhoods such as East Flatbush to history’s dustbin.—
Michael Powell,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Remnants of shell middens (high mounds of shells accumulated from long term group settlement) can still be found within the reserve.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
7 Mar. 2026
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Moreover, at higher temperatures, pine cones stored in middens, which act as a refrigerator, tend to spoil faster.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
23 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Three scavengers at the dump had been gunned down recently, and their families couldn’t afford to bury them.—
Sheila Coronel,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2026
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What fear of the dump translates to in practice is a broader resistance to the work of exposition in a story or novel.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Fiji has more than 330 islands, one sanitary landfill, and two municipal dumps.—
By Aryn Baker/Lautoka, Fiji ,
TIME,
3 July 2024
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Other materials might need to be sent to a hazardous waste landfill that has double the plastic lining in place as a typical sanitary landfill in order to protect groundwater from anything that might otherwise leach into it.—
Justine Calma,
The Verge,
3 Feb. 2024
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“Junkyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junkyard. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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