drawerful
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“Planned obsolescence” is the name of the game in consumer electronics, but you don’t have to accept a drawerful of fraying headphone cords and power cables as your destiny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
Eddie shuffled through the big desk with the drawerful of important papers—birth certificates, insurance policies—and found a photograph of Millie that was taken just before their wedding.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2019
Besides the risk of government deficits, M.M.T. throws out a drawerful of other venerable assumptions with Marie Kondo-esque ruthlessness.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2019
Happily, other corporate pilferings over the years meant I have a drawerful of good old-fashioned Sharpies.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2012
Miss THREEGAN, in window-seat, turning over a drawerful of things.
From The Story of the Gadsbys by Kipling, Rudyard
A single shell, so unequivocally of the period of the boulder-clay as to occur at the base of the deposit, would be worth, I have said, whole drawerfuls of fossils furnished by the better-known deposits.
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)
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