junk
noun
any old or discarded material, as metal, paper, or rags.
were junking
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past progressiveof junk.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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"The future is electronic," says publisher Willy Morgan, who shed 65 staff members and hurriedly set up a website last year when he discovered advertisers were junking the paper in favor of the Net.
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