jetsam

• “And I’d argue that his ability to nose out a story and piece it together from all the flotsam and jetsam is just what we’ve been missing in national journalism.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Who Is Murray Waas?

• “The noun is also the source of the word "jetsam" ( "jettisoned goods"), which is often paired with”

  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

• “While there are trained artists--perhaps inspired by Gaudí's early 20th-century mosaics or Marcel Duchamp's readymades--who sculpt and construct large-scale artworks made from repurposed cast offs, many more are dreamers with ordinary day jobs who abhor waste, have a penchant for collecting, and seize upon an unstoppable urge to create something beautiful from the flotsam and jetsam modern life.”

  The Huffington Post: Trash Art: California's Artistic Recycling Revolution

• “While there are trained artists--perhaps inspired by Gaudí's early 20th-century mosaics or Marcel Duchamp's readymades--who sculpt and construct large-scale artworks made from repurposed cast offs, many more are dreamers with ordinary day jobs who abhor waste, have a penchant for collecting, and seize upon an unstoppable urge to create something beautiful from the flotsam and jetsam modern life.”

  The Huffington Post: Trash Art: California's Artistic Recycling Revolution

• “My nationwide cohort of subs included the flotsam and jetsam of the economic downturn -- unemployed realtors, bankers, nurses.”

  The Huffington Post: Carolyn Bucior: Lesson: Substitute Teaching's 'F' -- What Gwyneth and Cameron Can Teach Education Experts

• ““The beach scattered with dead bodies and all sorts of flotsam and jetsam”.”

  BLOCKERS • by Frank Roger

• “The beach scattered with dead bodies and all sorts of flotsam and jetsam?”

  BLOCKERS • by Frank Roger

• “He worries more about "the crackheads, disenfranchised and other flotsam and jetsam" menacing folks on the streets.”

  The Washington Post: Since D.C.'s handgun ban ended, well-heeled residents have become well armed

• “There's the ancient paterfamilias who won't even think of retiring, leaving Rick rather like Prince Charles, were he brokering jetsam in Vegas in a purgatorial wait for unambiguous control of the enterprise.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Who Needs an MBA When We Have 'Dog the Bounty Hunter'?

• “A tow-rope was requisitioned from an up-coming boat, and a pair of horses from a pack-train on the bank, and the ghastly jetsam hauled ashore.”

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