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wastes

  • plural of waste.
  • present tense form of waste (3rd person singular).

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With the backing of the United Church of Christ, he began to assemble the first major study of the environmental justice era, “Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2021

Male nonsense, he told himself, but the pressure at his back was always a godly thing, as joyous as when he had first known its wilfulness in small aircraft over the Chicago Wastes.

From Nature • Apr. 16, 2019

In “A New Hope,” he’s hiding on Tatooine under the name Ben when he meets Luke Skywalker, whose R2 unit has a message from Princess Leia for him, in the Jundland Wastes.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2015

Through chapters on topics as varied as “Vacations, Holidays, and Other Wastes of Time” and “Speak English,” Simmons explains how he built his various empires and offers advice for others wanting to emulate his success.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2014

Cain must have learned about the Wyrdmarks in the White Fang Mountains—that cursed borderland between Adarlan and the Western Wastes.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas