Example Sentences
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Discards continued to climb, peaking in the 2020 winter-spring season, when biologists estimate more than 10 million pounds of crab sent overboard died in a harvest that retained 34 million pounds.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2022
Discards can tell us more about people’s everyday lives, she said, than magnificent marble sculptures and gold work.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2019
Discards of those less-fit kidneys temporarily increased a bit as the new policy began.
From Washington Times • Dec. 20, 2015
The issue of discarding fish to avoid breaching quotas galvanised UK support when celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall launched a Discards Campaign, which has so far attracted nearly 860,000 supporters.
From BBC • May 15, 2013
This, with some editorials, one or two incomplete, were retained and made use of, while the Discards, a few in galley proof, were returned to me.
From The Discards by McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil
