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as in swaying
to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions
the boat tossed to and fro in the heavy seas
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as in fidgeting
to make jerky or restless movements
tossed and turned in bed all night, unable to sleep in the heat
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as in throwing
to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm
toss that football over here
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as in dumping
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
we need to go through the basement and toss whatever we don't use
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Recent Examples of tossing
During that span, Browning went 4-3 as the team’s starter while tossing 12 touchdowns to just seven interceptions.
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Kambui Bomani, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
After tossing a few MAGA hats to the crowd, Kirk sat down under the canopy to take questions.
—Rick Jervis, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
And as Charlie Kirk fired up the crowd tossing hats, authorities say the suspect crouched and waited.
—ABC News, 14 Sep. 2025
People have been tossing flying discs for decades.
—Nate Heinold, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
The atmosphere was celebratory, with Kirk tossing hats into the crowd before diving into questions.
—Amanda Castro
joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Instead of potting them and tossing them in a couple of months to make way for the next season, try planting them.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025
Combined with everyday habits like donating or thrifting instead of tossing items, these improvements could help communities shrink their landfill footprint.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2025
There were few other highlights for the Twins (64-81), who couldn’t muster anything off soft-tossing starter Kyle Hendricks, who went seven innings and allowed just four hits.
—Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 10 Sep. 2025
Kambui Bomani, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
After tossing a few MAGA hats to the crowd, Kirk sat down under the canopy to take questions.
—Rick Jervis, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
And as Charlie Kirk fired up the crowd tossing hats, authorities say the suspect crouched and waited.
—ABC News, 14 Sep. 2025
People have been tossing flying discs for decades.
—Nate Heinold, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
The atmosphere was celebratory, with Kirk tossing hats into the crowd before diving into questions.
—Amanda Castro
joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Instead of potting them and tossing them in a couple of months to make way for the next season, try planting them.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025
Combined with everyday habits like donating or thrifting instead of tossing items, these improvements could help communities shrink their landfill footprint.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2025
There were few other highlights for the Twins (64-81), who couldn’t muster anything off soft-tossing starter Kyle Hendricks, who went seven innings and allowed just four hits.
—Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tossing
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The sun is out, there’s a cool breeze, and the tree leaves are swaying in the breeze.—
R29 Team,
Refinery29,
12 Sep. 2025
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The crowd was especially amped up during the performance, with Ciara among many in the audience standing up and swaying (and seemingly singing) along.—
Stacy Lambe,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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Applause intermingled with tears as the families of the Camp Mystic campers and counselors looked on, many with small children fidgeting in their Sunday-best attire behind the governor.—
Rebekah Riess,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
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As well as job displacement, AI risks deepening wealth inequality—concentrating the gains among those who own or are able to leverage its abilities, while throwing the remainder into the same basket of the formerly employable unemployed.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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In the show, following Conrad's surprise arrival in Paris the day before Belly's 22nd birthday, the pair spent some time together sightseeing before heading to the party Belly's Parisian friends were throwing her.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
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The last is dumping iron dust into the Southern Ocean to provoke phytoplankton blooms that would suck heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, a move that set off a backlash when an American entrepreneur tried it off Canada in 2012.—
Alec Luhn,
Scientific American,
11 Sep. 2025
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The work is part of a larger project with researchers across the region to assess the San Pedro Basin sites, where decades of dumping chemicals like DDT and other pollutants have raised environmental and human health risks.—
Maura Fox,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Sep. 2025
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But while the new movie dawdles on its way to Toxie’s origins, then rushes toward a finale with a lurching rhythm that verges on calculated ineptitude, its spirit never feels inauthentic.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
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The result, nearly eight months into his second term, is an economy that appears to be lurching into a new era of state control.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
13 Aug. 2025
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One video posted to the social platform X appeared to show Kirk addressing the students, at one point speaking about gang violence, before being struck near the neck and later jerking to his left side.—
Caroline Vakil,
The Hill,
10 Sep. 2025
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The story follows a Jewish family across five generations, from childhood to adulthood, blending laughs and tear-jerking moments, just like in Bob-Waksberg’s other shows.—
Braedon Montgomery,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Some protesters forced their way into the parliament complex by breaking through a barricade, a local official said, setting fire to an ambulance, hurling objects at riot police, and ferrying the injured to the hospital on motorcycles.—
Gopal Sharma,
USA Today,
8 Sep. 2025
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Born in what is now Zimbabwe, Bland spent hours as a child hurling stones at telegraph poles.—
James Wallace,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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The reason for the debris is not that people are discarding the cookies but, rather, the way they’re sold.—
Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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These layers are then reorganized into tensor networks, which retain the most important patterns in the layer’s weights while discarding redundant information that isn’t contributing much to overall performance.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Tossing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tossing. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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