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as in removal
the getting rid of whatever is unwanted or useless
trash disposal is on Wednesday in our neighborhood
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as in sequence
the way objects in space or events in time are arranged or follow one another
the disposal of troops along the ridge
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Recent Examples of disposal
Garments with significant wear, damage and heavy stains, and all intimates are directed to end-of-use streams, including recycling, downcycling and responsible disposal.
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Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
Worries about the disposal of nuclear waste and fears after the 1979 partial meltdown of a reactor at Three Mile Island, in Pennsylvania, didn’t help.
—Brad Plumer, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2025
Ironically, Smiths Detection is one of the businesses earmarked for disposal by Roland Carter, the chief executive.
—Ian King, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
The Cultural Terrace bid, awarded March 26, 2024, had 29 cubic yards of hydrocarbon contaminated soil for excavation and disposal, according to the city’s bid documents.
—Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 20 Oct. 2025
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Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
Worries about the disposal of nuclear waste and fears after the 1979 partial meltdown of a reactor at Three Mile Island, in Pennsylvania, didn’t help.
—Brad Plumer, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2025
Ironically, Smiths Detection is one of the businesses earmarked for disposal by Roland Carter, the chief executive.
—Ian King, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
The Cultural Terrace bid, awarded March 26, 2024, had 29 cubic yards of hydrocarbon contaminated soil for excavation and disposal, according to the city’s bid documents.
—Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 20 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disposal
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Blain was charged in San Diego Superior Court with four felony counts of perjury, asking for a bribe by a member of a legislative body, soliciting a bribe and destruction or removal of public records, along with misdemeanor petty theft.—
Susan Gill Vardon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Oct. 2025
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One way to assess possible malignancy is irregularity of a growth, speed of growth, localized lymph node metastasis as evidenced by enlargement of the nodes, and more but there is no substitute for an FNA or removal and biopsy.—
Dr. John De Jong,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
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That started with the volleyball spike of a 7-foot-1 player’s hook shot and continued to the tallest player in the league calmly breaking into a left-handed push dribble, coming under control and then hitting a complex six-dribble sequence and stepback 3-pointer plus the foul.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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There’s a spiritual dimension to that song and that sequence in the movie.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
25 Oct. 2025
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Historically, there hasn’t been a cost-effective way to make donation work over dumping, and while companies want to do the right thing, the financial constraints prevent them from doing so.—
Andre Claudio,
Sourcing Journal,
27 Oct. 2025
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Overflowing cans and informal dumping attract wildlife and shift behavior.—
Monica Sanders,
Forbes.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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From border work to senator funerals to food distributions, see them at work.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Under the pact, Legion M will work with Bleecker to co-finance the film’s distribution and marketing over the entire lifetime of the project.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
24 Oct. 2025
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Or to send any kind of message that stifles his defining disposition.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
22 Oct. 2025
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Halley is viewed as having more academic disposition and is more enmeshed with operations and technology and is respected for his industry smarts.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
20 Oct. 2025
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By varying their size and arrangement, the researchers can fine-tune how light reflects, creating red, green, and blue hues.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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District Live sets the stage for some of Savannah’s most dynamic performances, and that includes Soul Sessions, where Georgia’s top R&B artists come together for an evening of high-energy arrangements.—
Symiah Dorsey,
Southern Living,
24 Oct. 2025
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Starbucks is preparing to overhaul the coffee ordering experience with artificial intelligence, CEO Brian Niccol announced at the Dreamforce technology conference in San Francisco.—
Ben Kelly,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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Predicting the future and frictionless ordering Looking ahead, Niccol identified the Starbucks app as a major focus for future AI integration, particularly in terms of predicting customer orders.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Disposal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disposal. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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