discard
verb (used with object)
to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of.
discards
Example Sentences
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They agree to meet again, but Kip completely discards his Western life.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
This measurement, which has critics and fans, discards the categories with the most extreme inflation readings on both the high and low ends.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
Typical of the movie’s scatterbrained nature is the small drama it creates, then discards, about Guthrie’s past: He lived in Germany for years, though no one seems interested in whether this ended before the war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
And when the season is over, these commercialized Christmas sweaters often meet the same fate as other fast-fashion discards: donation piles or thrift stores.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2024
Bill Brobeck in 1938, next to discards from the lab’s neutron-shielding equipment: cans filled with water.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
