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computing a systems routine for eliminating invalid or out-of-date data and releasing storage locations

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Words nearby garbage collection

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.
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“Angry Birds is a small fun game plus a lot of pointless garbage,” Smith tells me.
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Speaking of the literature you love, the Bloomsbury writers crop up in your collection repeatedly.
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In 2011, the rapper-turned-self parody debuted his first collection, Dw Kanye West.
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She reassumed slave posture while Couple grabbed two magnetized clamps and a collection of circular magnets from a nearby shelf.
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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.
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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