| NOUN | a wastepaper basket | wastepaper baskets |
| SYNO | circular file | waste-paper basket | waste basket | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- Each meeting comprises a talk by a guest speaker, a musical interlude, a shorter talk by a member which (because of its purposeful inconsequence) is nicknamed "‘The Wastepaper Basket’", followed by a second musical item and the close of the meeting.
- ... – this was a decade before the Free Speech Movement there) that he ripped up his computer punch cards right on the Registration line in the Armory and tossed them into a wastepaper basket.
- The boss throws the dead fly, along with the blotting paper that was underneath it for his cruel game, into the wastepaper basket.
- In September 1894, the Statistical Section intercepted a handwritten note found in the wastepaper basket of the German ambassador in Paris, thanks to a household servant in the embassy.
- The conspirators approached Bismarck, who doubted the report's veracity, calling it "rakings from the King's wastepaper-basket and cupboards".
- The librarians fished the pieces out of the wastepaper basket and put it back together; it is currently held as a curiosity by the New York Public Library.
- A four-cylinder cyclecar, it had a body woven from so-called "waterproof reeds"; Wise describes it as "looking like a mobile wastepaper basket".
- A fire alarm was raised in the Centre Block on 3 February 1916, at 8:37 pm; something had been seen smouldering in a wastepaper basket in the Reading Room, but as that was not terribly unusual, a clerk was called to assist.
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