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as in garbage
discarded or useless material
it's illegal to throw rubbish out of your car on the highway
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as in junk
that which is of low quality or worth
regarded most romance novels as the lowest form of literary rubbish
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as in nonsense
language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
you're obviously no economist because what you're saying is absolute rubbish
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Recent Examples of rubbish
The Unreal Mobile Difference Sharing Azalea’s no-nonsense, no-filter attitude, Unreal challenges the rubbish that plagues the industry.
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Sara Smith, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
Many hallowed artists in the modern canon use lowbrow materials for their inspiration, from Tim Noble and Sue Webster’s sculptures of household rubbish and taxidermied animals to Charles Long’s cigarette butts and bird poop salvaged from the L.A. River.
—John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
Go Disposable Gone are the days when disposable cups, plates, and utensils were synonymous with landfill rubbish.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Nov. 2024
Johnson: There’s so much rubbish talked about this.
—Susan Page, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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Sara Smith, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
Many hallowed artists in the modern canon use lowbrow materials for their inspiration, from Tim Noble and Sue Webster’s sculptures of household rubbish and taxidermied animals to Charles Long’s cigarette butts and bird poop salvaged from the L.A. River.
—John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
Go Disposable Gone are the days when disposable cups, plates, and utensils were synonymous with landfill rubbish.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Nov. 2024
Johnson: There’s so much rubbish talked about this.
—Susan Page, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rubbish
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When a garbage man showed up this week, Ms. deVicariis was overjoyed after days of cleaning up vegetation.—
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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Then again, one man’s garbage TV is another man’s treasure.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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Skip the junk and level up to the Casabrews 5700PRO (7/10, WIRED Review), which offers an unfussy take on the art of homemade espresso drinks.—
Jaina Grey,
WIRED,
12 Jan. 2025
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Or is junk journaling, and whatever crafting trends come next, just internet consumption with a different face?—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
9 Jan. 2025
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By contrast, this rising international elite is creating something very different: a society in which superstition defeats reason and logic, transparency vanishes, and the nefarious actions of political leaders are obscured behind a cloud of nonsense and distraction.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2025
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That ain't the show, the show is the nonsense that's happening in between John Wick.—
Kevin Lynn,
Newsweek,
7 Jan. 2025
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Inspectors noted that dish racks had deteriorated with significant debris buildup.—
Hannah Poukish,
Sacramento Bee,
10 Jan. 2025
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For example, the speck-on-a-map village of Brienz in the Swiss Alps, east of Mont Blanc, finds itself in the path of a disintegrating mountainside consisting of 42 million cubic feet of debris.—
Paul Hockenos,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Jan. 2025
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Don’t miss the giant Parma hams and selection of cheese proudly on display or the ancient Roman exposed brickwork.—
Anna Haines,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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The same goes for frozen meals, casseroles, soups, stews and cakes, pies and pastries with custard or cheese fillings.—
Karen Kaplan,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2025
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The property also grows its own herbs, greens, nuts, berries, and edible flowers.—
Bianca Salonga,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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Focus on whole foods like fruits, leafy green vegetables, fatty fish, nuts, and seeds.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Health,
5 Jan. 2025
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The broken furniture, old clothing, drug paraphernalia and stacks of lottery tickets inside would eventually become 22 truckloads of trash.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
10 Jan. 2025
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Nothing forced him to talk a little trash before the last game.—
Kevin Kurz,
The Athletic,
10 Jan. 2025
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The post-election blahs are endemic across the big three cable news outlets, but the viewership numbers of individual networks can drop farther when the candidate seen as their ideological opposite wins.—
Rick Porter,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Dec. 2024
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Lighting Lighting is the jewelry of any room, so take down those blah builder grade fixtures and replace them with something magical.—
Sarah Lyon,
Southern Living,
20 Oct. 2024
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“Rubbish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rubbish. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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