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computing a systems routine for eliminating invalid or out-of-date data and releasing storage locations

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Garand, Garand rifle, garb, garbage, garbage can, garbage collection, garbage in, garbage out, garbageman, garbage truck, garbanzo, garble

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How to use garbage collection in a sentence

The collection includes kimono capes and hand woven jump overalls.
The Photographer Who Gave Up Manhattan for Marrakech|Liza Foreman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“Angry Birds is a small fun game plus a lot of pointless garbage,” Smith tells me.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Speaking of the literature you love, the Bloomsbury writers crop up in your collection repeatedly.
Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination|Mindy Farabee|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In 2011, the rapper-turned-self parody debuted his first collection, Dw Kanye West.
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s Balmain Campaign: High Fashion Meets Low Culture|Amy Zimmerman|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST

It houses more than 450,000 bottles of 15,000 elixirs within its collection valued at 25 million euros in 2009.
Inside The World’s 10 Oldest Restaurants|Justin Jones|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The collection in the Academy I thought much better, but still far enough behind similar galleries in Rome.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
At length the great Pit Town collection was housed as it deserved to be.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
I have made a small collection of early stories, and some of them are interesting enough to be quoted.
Children's Ways|James Sully
In the collection and method used, considerable annoyances are experienced.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
Outside Derby station was a ticket platform at which all incoming trains stopped for the collection of tickets.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow