slush pile
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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If someone pitched that story it would likely be thrown in the slush pile as hack work.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2024
Ms. Peters had been writing for children’s magazines when Tingley pulled her first manuscript — “The Stinky Sneakers Contest” — from the slush pile of unsolicited submissions at Little, Brown.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2023
“Home Alone,” another kiddie comedy from the slush pile of John Hughes, isn’t a cartoon movie in the way that, say, “Dick Tracy” is.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
Beneath the dossier’s journey from media obsession to slush pile lies a broader and more troubling story.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2021
Every poem Lockwood had published before “Rape Joke”—as she mentions in her 2017 memoir, Priestdaddy—was fished out of a slush pile by some enterprising young editor.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2021
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