Thesaurus results for FLOTSAM

flotsam

noun

ˈflät-səm

as in debris

the portion or bits of something left over or behind after it has been destroyed the dispirited family picked through the flotsam of their possessions after the hurricane, looking for anything that could be salvaged

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Recent Examples on the Web Living in White Plains, N.Y., in the 1980s, Mrs. Wallace galvanized a broad campaign to rescue the river, at the time an inaccessible 23-mile watercourse that was home to more flotsam, like the carcasses of junked cars and rusted refrigerators, than fauna. —

Sam Roberts, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024 At dawn, the water flowed through some city streets like coastal rivers, moving jellyfish, seaweed and flotsam several blocks landward. —

Reuters, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024 The European Space Agency, NASA and other spacefaring organizations across the globe have been looking for ways to mitigate the ever-growing cosmic junkyard of old satellites and rocket flotsam crowding Earth's orbit. —

Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024 In other words, an unfettered wide-open search of the Internet on your own is going to bring up all kinds of flotsam. —

Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for flotsam

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