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Recent Examples of dustbin
In the meantime, however, the robovac delivers plenty of suction power, a spacious dustbin, and a 240ml water tank that allows this robot to also mop your floors.
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Gabriela Vatu, PCMAG, 11 Nov. 2024
Hundreds of tiny bristles latch onto hair, pulling it off your surfaces and stuffing it into a dustbin built into the bottom of the roller with just a few gentle swipes.
—Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
The model that's on sale has a detachable mop pad, slightly better suction, and improved run time and dustbin size.
—Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 4 July 2024
With great-power competition seemingly relegated to the dustbin of history, economic interests could now drive foreign policy.
—Ivo Daalder, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022
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The business traces its origins to a junkyard and coal delivery business in Colerain Township that later added a hog farm after a Depression-era customer paid him with six pigs.Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2024
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Left unchecked, the junkyard of orbital debris can pose dangers to both crewed and uncrewed space missions, as well as astronauts on the space station.Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
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Food is often cut off from oxygen when it's piled up in a landfill.London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Nov. 2024
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In the Wednesday complaint, the county alleged that the companies promoted their bottles as recyclable but knew most of them would end up in landfills and that they cannot be meaningfully recycled without environmental harms.Zack Budryk, The Hill, 1 Nov. 2024
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Although the bones of fish, cattle, sheep and pig were pulled out of the middens (halos of garbage dumped from the huts above), there was no evidence of human casualties.Franz Lidz, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
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The land has been largely untouched for centuries — the Mocama and the Guale tribes had a presence on neighboring St. Simons Island, and while there is little information about Indigenous groups on Little St. Simons, shell middens suggest there was travel between the two.Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
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Just four years later, Howard found himself being traded away in a salary dump.Tim Bontemps, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
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New York City is gradually transforming its largest trash dump, Fresh Kills on Staten Island, into a vast expanse of parkland and restored natural areas.Andres Viglucci, miamiherald, 15 June 2017
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“Dustbin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dustbin. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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