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Her mother picked up threads from the carpet and put them in the wastepaper basket.
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Ranging in size from a wastepaper basket to a Volkswagen Beetle, its contraptions, known as feeders, weigh and distribute ingredients.
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So are we headed for the wastepaper basket?
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The only evidence presented at his trial was a torn-up note containing confidential military information, which had been found in a wastepaper basket at the German embassy by a cleaning lady working as a French spy.
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Ms. PROSE: So the fact that they're worried may actually be a good sign, and every writer I know - I mean there's a wonderful phrase of William Burroughs, and he talks about the temptation to take your work and tear it up into tiny little pieces and throw it in somebody else's wastepaper basket.
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