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- noun Plural form of
scrapheap .
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Update: Edward Burtynsky's photos are also a remarkable celebration of the beauty in giant quarries, dams, scrapheaps, and refineries.
Boing Boing: October 16, 2005 - October 22, 2005 Archives 2005
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Despite a swath of regulations, discarded televisions and computers are finding their way into scrapheaps around the world, with potentially harmful environmental consequences, says National Geographic's Chris Carroll.
Informed Reader 2007
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Add, then, to the many joys of poverty this privilege, -- to spend much time and little money in treasure hunting on the scrapheaps of literature.
THE DIME MUSEUM BY DON ROSE jmnlman 2006
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Add, then, to the many joys of poverty this privilege, -- to spend much time and little money in treasure hunting on the scrapheaps of literature.
Archive 2006-10-01 jmnlman 2006
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"We have now been forced to look around on the naval scrapheaps of Britain and France to find the necessary spare parts to keep the subs operational," Simpson-Anderson lamented.
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No Russkies left to rail at, not for now but the Slavs in their millions with their scrapheaps of children must replace your South Americans
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Britain access to TV, radio and internet?) and also probably they are so over produced that millions of perfectly good TVs end up in scrapheaps every year.
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Benjamin Fox 2010
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