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- noun A
wastebasket ; abin used for household or office waste.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected
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Examples
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Will he succumb to the same forces that put Medicare for All and the public option fall into the Congressional wastebin?
Matthew Yglesias » All Deficit Reduction Plans Involve Promises About Future Action 2010
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To focus all concern on cost overruns is a diversion from these and at least a dozen more important concerns which condemn the deep-bore tunnel to the wastebin of history and its proponents as either unwittingly incompetent or, in the case of certain highway planning directors, malevolently vindictive toward the good people of Seattle.
Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola 2010
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However, the price of that reassurance was that Parlabane neglected to notice the wastebin almost directly in front, and was consequently up-ended when he caught it a glancing blow at thigh-level.
It's October, 1956. Shelagh Power-Chopra 2010
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So while artoo is usually repro'd in cheapo plastic and turned into a shampoo dispenser / wastebin / flip-top laundry basket, in this way more expensive and extremely realistic artoo you get a DVD/game projector that can display a picture up to 260 inches!
Star Wars Alice 2009
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She took a bite of her bread and then tossed the rest into an overflowing wastebin.
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009
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The mythical was relegated to the wastebin of kitsch and bad taste, just another of the ceramic figurines littering suburban lawns everywhere.
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She took a bite of her bread and then tossed the rest into an overflowing wastebin.
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009
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He sat back in his chair, put his feet on top of a dark green wastebin and lit a cigarette.
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Empty food cartons were stacked in an overflowing flip-top wastebin.
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009
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Empty food cartons were stacked in an overflowing flip-top wastebin.
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009
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