wastepaper
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of wastepaper
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After receiving one particular screenplay, Mr. Lloyd admits that he “skimmed through it and tossed it into a wastepaper basket.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The accusation, based on a comparison of handwriting on a document found in the German's wastepaper basket in Paris, kicked off what would become known as the "Dreyfus affair".
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025
New visitors found the sculpture—inspired by an Indian stepwell and sometimes likened to a wastepaper basket or a shawarma—encased in metal mesh, as if to keep out pigeons.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2025
She said they were deployed to make good on her country’s recent threat to “scatter mounds of wastepaper and filth” in South Korea in response to the leafleting campaigns by South Korean activists.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024
It took them nearly ten minutes to catch Scabbers, who had taken refuge under a wastepaper bin outside Quality Quidditch Supplies.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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