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The recovery teams retrieve bodies along with each piece of flotsam that might provide a clue.flotsam = floating debris
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Too much flotsam finds its way to my inbox.
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...the flotsam and jetsam that life washed up on our shores! (source)flotsam = things treated as of low value (originally floating debris -- especially wreckage of a ship)
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It was the type of flotsam and jetsam (a pair of words I had just learned from the dictionary) that washes up on your coffee table, lies around for a week or so, and then makes way for whatever comes in on the next tide. (source)flotsam = things of low value (originally floating debris -- especially wreckage of a ship)
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Next, he gathered dry grasses and tiny twigs from the high-water flotsam. (source)flotsam = floating debris
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In the next three rooms, the Count found flotsam and jetsam from floor to ceiling.† (source)
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Only rain, marauding waves of black ocean and the flotsam of tragedy.† (source)
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We can't leave her drifting like flotsam through the sky lanes.† (source)
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The children scan the terrain, stoop, pick up flotsam; then they deliberate among themselves, keeping some items, discarding others; their treasures go into a torn sack.† (source)
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We tried to paddle against it but had no more luck than flotsam caught in a tidal wave, and then it thudded against our feet and we were rising, too, riding its back.† (source)
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Gaea opened the earth, and I was consumed, exiled here in the belly of my father Tartarus, where all the useless flotsam collects—all the bits of creation he does not care for.† (source)
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Just some of the weird flotsam on a riverbank, but we keep everything in a search like that.† (source)
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There was a thick stripe of seaweed, with crab shells and flotsam embedded, and she threaded her fingers through it.† (source)
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A good fifty percent of it isn't real boat material at all, just a garble of ropes, cables, planks, nets, and other debris tied together on top of whatever kind of flotsam was handy.† (source)
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and on a daily basis I continued to pry open his jaws and extract from the roof of his mouth all sorts of flotsam from our daily lives—potato skins and muffin wrappers, discarded Kleenex and dental floss.† (source)
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Much of this "new knowledge" is actually the flotsam of old thought, some of whose roots go back to Hellenism.† (source)
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