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What does jetsam mean?

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Noun
  1. articles thrown overboard from a ship or boat in order to lighten the load of a ship in distress
  2. (by extension) discarded odds and ends
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But like lefties everywhere, clinging to whatever jetsam keeps us afloat, I believe every revolution ere now was betrayed.
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.
Harmonization was one of those words I thought I'd seen the end of, but here it is again, surfacing among the flotsam and jetsam at City Hall.
A half-open closet nearby revealed the assorted flotsam and jetsam that had been cunningly arranged to produce ethereal effects.
But, as I walk through here, the mud that is caked and the flotsam and jetsam.
Tony Williams is a pitiful wretch, on the jetsam on the shore of the Anacostia.

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