as in garbage
discarded or useless material
a pile of offal from the tannery operating in the neighborhood
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Recent Examples of offal
Is her dead cat gonna get thrown into the offal pile?
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Alice Burton, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2025
The Scottish hippo born earlier this year is named after a famously divisive dish made with offal.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
In the thick atmosphere, stray dogs fight with seabirds for scraps of offal and urinate against the barrels of blood and salt water where waiting fish float.
—Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2024
Of all the offal, this one's perhaps the easiest to stomach (apologies for the awful pun).
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 16 May 2024
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Alice Burton, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2025
The Scottish hippo born earlier this year is named after a famously divisive dish made with offal.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
In the thick atmosphere, stray dogs fight with seabirds for scraps of offal and urinate against the barrels of blood and salt water where waiting fish float.
—Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2024
Of all the offal, this one's perhaps the easiest to stomach (apologies for the awful pun).
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 16 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for offal
Noun
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Lira, remembering the garbage, quickly takes out the trash.—
Cindy Carcamo,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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Leave the garbage can open and place it in the sun to fully dry before closing it or putting a garbage bag in it.—
Kamron Sanders,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Dazed individuals are seen walking among debris in a hallway, with smoke in the air and power knocked out.—
Abeer Salman,
CNN,
23 Mar. 2025
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The mayor reported falling debris and fires in three districts of the capital.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
23 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The El Gigante rock shelter itself is more than 120 feet wide and 55 feet deep, and contains trash piles left by its former residents that span the last 11,000 years.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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In the footage, the individual pulls up to the secluded dumpster in their car and quickly dumps the cat on top of the overflowing trash receptacle.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This dumping exacts a devastating environmental toll—leaching toxic contaminants into water, air, and food, and miring whole regions in growing fields of rubbish.—
Scott W. Stern,
The Atlantic,
10 Mar. 2025
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This includes brush and rubbish, concrete, brick, rock, wood, paper, plastics, cardboard and roofing shingles and tiles.—
Elizabeth Campbell,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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For a piece in this week’s issue, Helfand speaks with all parties involved, and even visits Elvis in his current resting place, amid dusty knickknacks and towering piles of junk in an office behind a mechanic’s garage.—
Hannah Jocelyn,
The New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2025
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When the children got older [my eldest is now 38], trying to find convenient snacks that weren't full of all kinds of junk was challenging.—
Carly Mallenbaum,
Axios,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Lately, the world has been seeing apocalyptic images of the devastation in northern Gaza—a landscape without sewage, running water, or machines to clear rubble.—
Ayesha Khan,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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The United Nations says more than 90% of homes have been damaged or destroyed, overwhelmingly by Israeli airstrikes, along with most hospitals, schools and basic infrastructure like water, sewage and electricity networks.—
Aya Batrawy,
NPR,
3 Mar. 2025
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In asthma, the immune system overreacts to harmless environmental elements like pollen, mold, or dust, causing airway inflammation.—
Carisa Brewster,
Verywell Health,
20 Mar. 2025
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As some know, director/screenwriter Elijah Bynum’s harrowing feature has been collecting dust on the shelf for two years due mostly to Majors’ problems, including his conviction of misdemeanor assaults against Grace Jabbari.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Offal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/offal. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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