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as in to dump
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
I should throw away that torn shirt
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as in to spend
to use up carelessly
if you buy a high-end computer, you'll just be throwing away money on a bunch of features you'll never use
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Recent Examples of throw away
C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 19 May 2025
Nearly a month later, a judge issued an injunction preventing the city from enforcing its camping ban against people who can’t find shelter, as well as from seizing and throwing away people’s belongings.
—Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 23 May 2025
Nate Rogers, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
Occasionally, even Trump hints at this, vaguely touting secondary sanctions as a throwaway remark earlier this week.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 16 May 2025
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Verb
The street sign is located just a stone’s throw away from Miami Edison High School, Moore’s alma mater.
—C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 19 May 2025
Nearly a month later, a judge issued an injunction preventing the city from enforcing its camping ban against people who can’t find shelter, as well as from seizing and throwing away people’s belongings.
—Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 23 May 2025
Noun
At this point, what started as a throwaway joke has grown into something vaguely earnest — too big to fail and too enmeshed in the neighborhood to be abandoned in good conscience.
—Nate Rogers, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
Occasionally, even Trump hints at this, vaguely touting secondary sanctions as a throwaway remark earlier this week.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 16 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for throw away
Verb
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Credential dumps from breached companies are traded daily on the dark web.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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To stay on the show, each Islander must couple up with another Islander or risk being dumped from the villa.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
5 June 2025
Verb
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The actor-writer-director, who is 31 and uses they/she pronouns, has spent the last decade or so as a niche internet presence, going viral periodically on Twitter (and then X) and TikTok with satirical front-facing videos and bone-dry one-liners.—
Rachel Brodsky,
Rolling Stone,
6 June 2025
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One-quarter of all U.S. consumers also plans to decrease spending or abstain from buying on Amazon Prime Day this summer, according to data from Akeneo.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
6 June 2025
Noun
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When funding for these circulars came to an end, Fred picked up the eclipse baton and with the help of Canadian meteorologist Jay Anderson, produced their own eclipse circulars, funded under the auspices of NASA.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
3 June 2025
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But the bigger problem now is the big bang of agency memos, bulletins, circulars, and other forms of regulatory dark matter—edicts that bypass traditional public-notice rulemaking procedures, allegedly lack the force of law, yet few are brave enough to ignore.—
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The ruling Liberal Democratic Party contends that opening royal status to commoners is just one step down a path that will ultimately lead to the abandonment of patrilineal legitimacy, ultimately discarding the sacred Y chromosome.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
8 June 2025
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Maggie's phone was discovered discarded beside the road outside the gates of the estate. Feb. 2, 2023: Footage emerges of Murdaugh in two different outfits on the night of the murder Evidence surfaced that Murdaugh changed his clothes at some point in the evening.—
Julie Tremaine,
People.com,
7 June 2025
Verb
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If Brian Wilson made music to remember what was lost, Sly Stone made music to insist there was still something worth finding.—
Philip Martin,
Arkansas Online,
15 June 2025
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Surprisingly dismissed after the Cubs lost the 2017 National League Championship Series, Mallee moved on from that disappointment by landing major-league coaching positions with the Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Angels.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
15 June 2025
Noun
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Gonzalez said his home run Friday, his second of the season, included a hunting trip.—
John Maffei,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 June 2025
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The electric muscle car was gaining as much as a mile-per-hour a second, as depicted in the video above.—
Charles Singh,
USA Today,
6 June 2025
Verb
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For the final version of the maitake mushroom ($19), Joyce ditched the ranch idea and decided on an allium aioli and a potion bottle of malt vinegar on the side.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2025
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For younger generations, recession-proofing their budget has meant ditching a real therapist for a bot stand-in.—
Fiorella Valdesolo,
Vogue,
10 June 2025
Verb
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The sale runs through the end of the picnic but is closed on Sundays.—
Susan Soldavin,
Baltimore Sun,
14 June 2025
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The tournament runs through Sunday, July 13, culminating in the final at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 June 2025
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