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flotsam
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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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    In the next three rooms, the Count found flotsam and jetsam from floor to ceiling.†  (source)
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    Any vessel can collect flotsam and jetsam.†  (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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    Trapped in its weave was a kaleidoscope of ice floe, dead fish, plastic garbage bags, car tires, grocery carts, and other assorted flotsam.†  (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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    The Imperium, the CHOAM Company, all the Great Houses, they are but bits of flotsam in the path of the flood.†  (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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    He can't in good conscience send her back into it, to become flotsam on the subsocietal tide that washes up now and then in his office, depositing others like her.†  (source)
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    Tree bark, he would have guessed, or sewer-grate flotsam.†  (source)
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    I kept working, gathering the flotsam with the long net.†  (source)
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    You are welcome to it; it came from the flotsam of Isengard.†  (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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