Example Sentences

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Herro favors tech stocks that investors are discarding because they are not AI plays, or because they fear AI will hurt business.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 29, 2025

“As people are discarding stuff and cleaning out a home, they call us,” Meagher says.

From Washington Post • May 28, 2020

This type of emotional link means that when you think about throwing out your parents’ belongings, you feel as if you are discarding a part of them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 4, 2016

In the movie, one of them protests to Pitt: “You are discarding what scouts have done for 150 years.”

From Slate • Nov. 13, 2011

It has been reported that the Mohammedan women of the Caucasus are discarding their veils, that the Russian women in the rural districts are petitioning for greater privileges, etc.

From The Modern Woman's Rights Movement A Historical Survey by Schirmacher, Kaethe