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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, as I walk through here, the mud that is caked and the flotsam and jetsam.
A half-open closet nearby revealed the assorted flotsam and jetsam that had been cunningly arranged to produce ethereal effects.
Liberation simply travels, picking up junk and jetsam along the way, discarding it somewhere downstream, and rambling on.
Preston's troupe preferred to circumvent the chaotic jetsam of the central areas by focusing their efforts on the flanks.
Tony Williams is a pitiful wretch, on the jetsam on the shore of the Anacostia.
Those years and four children later, I was among the jetsam of my husband's midlife crisis.

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