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Discover LudwigThe phrase "detritus of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the material left behind from an event or a particular process. For example, "The detritus of the battle littered the field."
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All the detritus of consumer capitalism.
Lost in the detritus of domestic life.
Bullet by bullet, workers removed the detritus of Cambodia's past.
What do you do with the detritus of your dead?
In Kashmir today lies the detritus of partition.
At Lal Chowk, the city's protest center, lies the detritus of a recently renovated bell tower.
The characters suffocate, are stabbed to death, die crushed by the detritus of the world.
They have become the detritus of what seems, on a bad day, like a dying culture.
His early works were installations made of found materials, like the plastic detritus of domestic goods.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo's militias are the detritus of a long-failed state.
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I'm not talking about those process-the-detritus-of-everyday-life dreams.
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