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as in variety
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things
a litter of magazines covered the bedroom floor
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as in garbage
discarded or useless material
if you get caught throwing your litter on the sidewalk, you'll get slapped with a fine
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Recent Examples of litter
Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Volunteers may pick up litter along Piney Road or help with trail maintenance and tree removal.
—Flip Putthoff, arkansasonline.com, 29 Oct. 2024
Caroline Reid, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
New York state also sued PepsiCo last November for its role in creating the plastic waste that littering the Buffalo River, which empties into Lake Erie and supplies the city of Buffalo’s drinking water.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2024
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Noun
This reduces the birth of future litters and helps prevent overcrowding in animal shelters .
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The lobby is lined with sparkling white marble and littered with glass display cabinets containing golden animal models made by local artisans.
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Hash Bubbie Women’s Flats Every wardrobe needs a reliable pair of flats, and the Hash Bubbie Flats come in a variety of colors to match any outfit.Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 30 Nov. 2024
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Food recalls are made by the FDA for a variety of reasons, including contamination with harmful bacteria, undeclared allergens and mislabeling, and foreign object contamination.Aliss Higham, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
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Generic garbage with weird phrases and a robotic structure.Jodie Cook, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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And composting leaves means less going to the garbage dump.Lauren David, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2024
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Their pupping sites in the shallower northeastern Caspian Sea are shifting and disappearing, as the animals also struggle against pollution and overfishing.Laura Paddison, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
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Sightings stretch back to the early 2000s, but the creatures started pupping — having babies — around Point La Jolla roughly a decade ago.Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
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Therefore, targeting high-value leads will require an assortment of segmentation criteria.Jonathan Schwartz, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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With the Amazon Support Small filter, buyers can sift through an assortment of small businesses on the site.Katie Wiseman, The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2024
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As the name implies, a mop-vac rolls a mop and a vacuum into one—sucking up debris and cleaning your floors at the same time.Emily Farris, Bon Appétit, 29 Nov. 2024
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Then on race day Sunday, a crash sent debris into the stands, injuring eight fans.Marco della Cava, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024
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Local authorities were able to coax the bobcat kitten out of the tree and bring it some comfort.Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
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We're just kitten around.Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 10 Mar. 2023
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Owners’ names now read like jumbles of computer code, retirement homes or rock bands: Silver Sage, Dream Homes, Blue Apple, P Fin VII, Wref II, 3xs2, Vivid, Straight Red Lines, TKJK, Jags Proper.Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2024
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Think of it instead as a Rube Goldberg machine, reimagining doodles as dense jumbles of steps and if-then rules.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
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Vault toilets, trash and recycling services are available at the nearby El Capitan picnic area.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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On one recent morning, trash littered the steps leading down to the garden-level entrance, and a red Nike shoebox sat abandoned in a stone planter.Bridget Read, Curbed, 15 Nov. 2024
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“Litter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/litter. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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