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Recent Examples of junkyard
The pack rat, whose entire yard is filled with stuff — a total junkyard.
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Chi Varnado, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2025
Sam Das, United States, 2024 A young trans woman is chased into a junkyard while being followed home late at night.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025
And the costly orbiters, once out of film, went into the celestial junkyard.
—William J. Broad, New York Times, 19 May 2025
The last day of the shoot was by the bonfire, and all of that was put together from the junkyard.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2025
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Chi Varnado, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2025
Sam Das, United States, 2024 A young trans woman is chased into a junkyard while being followed home late at night.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025
And the costly orbiters, once out of film, went into the celestial junkyard.
—William J. Broad, New York Times, 19 May 2025
The last day of the shoot was by the bonfire, and all of that was put together from the junkyard.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for junkyard
Noun
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The Ethiopian-American investor and entrepreneur has built his career around challenging assumptions — whether by turning landfills into power plants or by turning scarcity into opportunity.—
Sylvana Quader Sinha,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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Research is currently underway, for instance, to see if ash from incinerated landfill could be used, alongside soil and construction debris, instead.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
23 July 2025
Noun
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When docked, the clean station automatically empties the vacuum’s dustbin.—
Terri Williams,
Architectural Digest,
3 July 2025
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Additionally, both models have a self-emptying dustbin.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
19 June 2025
Noun
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The musket balls were found together near a midden by the metal detectorist, cultural heritage coordinator Anthony Simmons said in the release, meaning a member of the First Nations could have brought the shot belt there and then discarded it.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2025
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The midden is a testament to the volume of shellfish eaten by Hoabinhians.—
Smithsonian Magazine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Just four years later, Howard found himself being traded away in a salary dump.—
Tim Bontemps,
chicagotribune.com,
21 June 2017
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New York City is gradually transforming its largest trash dump, Fresh Kills on Staten Island, into a vast expanse of parkland and restored natural areas.—
Andres Viglucci,
miamiherald,
15 June 2017
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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 6 Aug. 2025.
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