I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
then
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One plan after another was proposed, then discarded .
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It uses us and then discards us.
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The contents were then discarded , the wells were washed with the wash buffer solution and blotted on a paper towel.
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During the past weeks he had become tired of putting two and two together, and then discarding the answer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A child had become trapped in a refrigerator discarded in a vacant lot.
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Cut the olives into small slices and discard the pits.
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People who discard their litter in the streets should have to pay heavy fines.
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Wait! You forgot to discard .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A first step for this current administration would be to discard its ideologically-inspired opposition to council housing building.
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I just traded up, discarding my old Colorado Jumbo 250 tape drive for new Colorado Jumbo 1400.
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In many cases, expensive equipment is being discarded.
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Interference pattern Today's cellphone networks treat the interference information as unwanted noise and discard it.
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Meanwhile, librarian Jane Lane has recently had to discard around 100 social science books because they were woefully out of date.
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The parasitism of advertising enables it to use and discard any style and content for its own ends.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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People pay him to haul away their discards.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Cap Sogea had such dominance in the class that her one discard was a 1st place.
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Her sensible cotton nightshirt must have been one of his discards.
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Marble discards are crushed to make the gravel or composite paving stones you see all over the world.
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What is one institution's discard is another's desideratum.