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as in garbage
discarded or useless material he poured the dreck she called soup down the drain
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as in junk
that which is of low quality or worth can you believe that the gallery owner dares to call that dreck "art"?
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Recent Examples of dreck Even if a viewer doesn’t understand the underlying ideology, the memes can lead to more, and more overt, neo-Nazi dreck. —
Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026 And, man, there’s a lot of dreck. —Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025 As with any high-volume enterprise, there was lots of forgettable dreck, but the Stanford’s series is the cream of the crop — curated by British film critic and writer David Thomson, who now lives in the Bay Area. —Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2025 Told in flashback, the film traces the progress of producer Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) from B-movie dreck to A-list Oscar winners to box office flops. —Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dreck
Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026 And, man, there’s a lot of dreck. —Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025 As with any high-volume enterprise, there was lots of forgettable dreck, but the Stanford’s series is the cream of the crop — curated by British film critic and writer David Thomson, who now lives in the Bay Area. —Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2025 Told in flashback, the film traces the progress of producer Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) from B-movie dreck to A-list Oscar winners to box office flops. —Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dreck
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dreck
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For example, the EV mandate would be imposed on a company like Waste Management which pays the local government a franchise fee for the exclusive right to provide garbage collection services to all the residents.— Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 18 Apr. 2026
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But the temporary solution for many buildings is asking residents to fill in as volunteer cleaners, garbage schleppers, and greeters.— Anne Kadet, Curbed, 17 Apr. 2026
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Some of these are arranged into more staid compositions of geometric bands of color, while others bend and bulge into shapes evoking the baroque ruination of junk-yard findings.— Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
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Dump the junk; donate the rest to the Goodwill or other donation centers.— Terri Daxon, Oc Register, 16 Apr. 2026
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Drone debris also fell on a roof of a residential building in the city of Samara, wounding a number of people, Fedorishchev said.— Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
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Do not burn debris or other items during an air quality alert.— NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 23 Apr. 2026
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In the hot box next to the cashier, where food needs to be kept at or above 135 degrees to prevent bacteria growth, cheese tequeños, cheese and jalapeño tequeños, guava and cheese pastelitos, cheese pastelitos and cheese cachitos measured from 114 to 125 degrees.— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2026
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There are build-your-own-bowl restaurants that encourage customers to make mountains out of carne asada and shredded cheese.— Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
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The three-block stretch, between 16th and 19th avenues, looks markedly different from just a year ago, when tents, abandoned cars and piles of trash crowded the street and sidewalks.— Da Lin, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
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Issues cited by residents include drug use, trash and a man with an assault rifle.— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
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Mulhouse Public Prosecutor Nicolas Heitz speaks to the press after a boy was discovered naked and malnourished on a pile of rubbish in a van where he had been kept locked up, in Hagenbach, eastern France, on April 10, 2026.— CBS News, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
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Stony rubbish, dead trees, the odd corpse in the garden—nothing that couldn’t be absorbed back into the earth.— Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
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Because of the speed of revolution, a single grain of dust can be enough to strip the magnetic film and obliterate the underlying data.— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
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The Swiffer Sweeper is perfect for picking up dust, dirt, and pet hair from hardwood, linoleum, or tile floors.— Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 18 Apr. 2026
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“Dreck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/dreck. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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