1
as in discarded
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
a politician who had laid by his principles years ago
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2
as in stored
to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place
ever since the last hurricane caught them unprepared, they have laid by emergency supplies
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The deer could be contaminated with CWD, and if discarded incorrectly, can spread the disease.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2026 -
The first-stage booster that had been tapped during the original attempts was discarded for a new booster.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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All of it is encrypted, and some of it could be stored by actors anticipating that current encryption methods may become less effective over time.—
Lyssanoel Frater,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
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When the effluent isn’t treated or is improperly stored, the chemicals can seep into groundwater and waterways, contaminating aquifers and rivers.—
Abraham Nunbogu,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Water testing has been temporarily increased to once a month at the Oceanside Harbor after someone reported seeing a suspicious liquid dumped from a boat.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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The Level 5 accident dumped radioactive contamination across Europe and it is thought that traces of isotope iodine-131 may have caused several hundred cancer diagnoses.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
25 Apr. 2026
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Some hoards represent political instability—a stash stashed away and never recovered.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Apr. 2026
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China stashed more than three times as much crude oil as the US in 2025, new data shows.—
J.D. Capelouto,
semafor.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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Policy for transporting firearms Amtrak requires firearms on its trains to be declared, unloaded, secured in a hard case and to meet certain size and weight requirements.—
Claudia Lauer,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Jerusalem — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Israel of knowingly allowing grain stolen by Russia to be unloaded at Israeli ports, threatening to impose sanctions on anyone involved in the shipments, which Kyiv says have continued despite multiple appeals to Israeli officials.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
28 Apr. 2026
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Kerss is a master at breaking the complicated information down into manageable bites for those of us who ditched science after high school.—
Heather Greenwood Davis,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 Apr. 2026
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Vertebrates ditched their body armor and scales for smooth skin; cephalopods lost their external shell.—
Kate Wong,
Scientific American,
23 Apr. 2026
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Sad memories of last year — when Wooten lost a tiebreaker in her state championship singles match to hand Palmetto the title — are all but erased.—
Buddy Collings,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 Apr. 2026
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The Thompsons lost their mother to a heart attack in January 2023, according to TMZ.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Laid by.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laid%20by. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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