Michael Wolff

Bill de Blasio, for his part, became the mayor of New York, surely the most powerful local political position in the nation, and arguably - after Giuliani and Bloomberg - one with a national base, one with, practically speaking, no job at all. He went from marginal political flotsam and jetsam to extraordinary centrality within a few months time.

American Author

Lyall Watson

Air is traditionally 'thin,' but the more we learn about our atmosphere, the more substantial it becomes. In some places it is so filled with inorganic flotsam that it is almost thick enough to plough; in others, it has become so primed with the by-products of life that it comes close to being a living tissue in its own right.

South African Scientist

Gillian Flynn

We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.

Often used when talking about the sea and things found in or near it.

Ocean Themed

Indicates unwanted items, sometimes with a sense of disorder or mess.

Negative Connotation

Can be used metaphorically to describe a collection of miscellaneous or unconnected items.

Metaphorical Use

Used to discuss people or things considered insignificant or irrelevant, often in a social context.

Figurative Meaning

Sometimes refers to people who are displaced, ignored, or marginalized by society.

Human Aspect

When describing life situations, 'flotsam' can evoke feelings of chaos or emotional baggage.

Emotional Weight

 as the young turtles come to the surface for air. For their first few days of life, should they count themselves amongst the living, the vulnerable turtles swim frantically forward. Ultimately, they will often look to settle in a patch of flotsam, preferably a patch of floating seaweed.

The Survival of the Sea...

 quantity of food that washes up everyday on coastlines around the world but like so much of the coast the quantity of flotsam and jetsam is unpredictable nobody can rely on it alone this carcass even attracted a shy pack of wolves only

Dead Whale Carcass Feast...

 of food that washes up everyday on coastlines around the world but like so much at the coast the quantity of flotsam and jetsam is unpredictable nobody can rely on it alone this carcass even attracted a shy pack of wolves only

Bear Eats Dead Whale PIPE...

 interested yeah baby full speed ahead then wouldn't you know it a vicious tide swirls in and suddenly everything is topsy-turvy among other flotsam the tide brings an arrival now great just what you needed Three's

The Weird World of...

 The small flotsam of the forest. The motion of the high clouds streaming above the peaks. I dreamed, that for a moment, time stood quietly and the vision became but a shadow of an infinitely greater world."

National Geographic...

 has hung like the sword of Damocles over my head. I mean, who can remember what they said a year ago? Scared and mortified, I listen, listen as I prattle on about the flotsam and jetsam of the day;

The price of shame PIPE...

 And what I need, in effect, is a focus. And when I have the question, it is a focus. And all these things that seem to be flotsam and jetsam in life actually go through

Where does creativity...

 it a vicious ty squirrels in and suddenly everything is topsy-turvy among other flotsam the tide brings an arrival now great just what you needed Three's

Octopus Mating PIPE...

 the storm and two long lines of debris not just flotsam everything is gathered up including turtles this is a green turtle the loggerhead will encounter

The Ocean Food Chain PIPE...

 winds and currents sweep up the chaos of the storm into long lines of debris not just flotsam everything is gathered up

Flotsam

Ocean Themed

Negative Connotation

Metaphorical Use

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