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Recent Examples of jetsam
Full of the flotsam and jetsam of everyday affairs.
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Maya Singer, Vogue, 1 July 2024
Luke called the vultures back and reshot the scene with the jetsam of pestilence.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
For Kevin Nunez and his son Nathan, Native Americans who have long family history locked within the rugged and geologically active mountains, volunteering to help remove the flotsam and jetsam of tourists is a solemn duty.
—Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
So flotsam or jetsam?
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jetsam
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This stellar remnant is a white dwarf, the exhausted stellar core left over when a star around the same mass as the sun runs out of the fuel for nuclear fusion and sheds its outer layers.—
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Inside, the last clusters of conversation continued over champagne and the remnants of that improbable charcuterie spread.—
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Weekend Home Deals Keep your home clean and tidy with fabric storage bags, drawer organizers, and a Shark steam mop that effortlessly removes grime, sticky messes, and more debris from hard floors.—
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None Created from debris streams left behind by Comet Thatcher (which last circled the sun in 1861), the Lyrid meteor shower averages between 10 to 20 fireballs per hour.—
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The detritus of a Bronze Age ship can tell us about the people on board and the routes taken by these intrepid travelers over 3,000 years ago.—
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Urbano recovered fragments of the original arena and presented them under a ceiling, lit from above and covered with dead leaves and other plant detritus.—
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Through displaying the flotsam, Corinn Flaherty hopes to raise people’s awareness about marine pollution.—
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Without forward Jalen Johnson healthy, the Hawks failed to emerge out of the play-in tournament flotsam this past spring.—
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In the first image rubble from the fire is visible and the land is a charred brown.—
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First responders carried many of the injured, who were trapped under rubble, out on stretchers, and detection dogs were used to ensure that rescuers located everyone trapped in the debris, per the BBC.—
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Hot water is key to breaking down the oils, bacteria, and residue that towels often collect.—
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Too much can leave behind residue.—
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Caruso said the ruins should be torn down.—
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In the ruins of the kitchen sat two cast-iron Le Creuset stew pots — the only survivors.—
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“Jetsam.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jetsam. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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