as in dumping
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
once she became rich and didn't need them anymore, she cast off all her old friends like so much junk
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Their deleterious impact creates conditions that favor further wildfires by dumping greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere which contributes to more warming.—
Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn,
Forbes.com,
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But that list is not expected to grow this year, with the Heat already under the luxury tax threshold after dumping Haywood Highsmith’s salary in a trade with the Brooklyn Nets earlier this month.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
28 Aug. 2025
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Some overseas investors have also been unloading government bonds and rotating into Japanese equities , driving its stock markets to fresh highs, analysts who spoke to CNBC noted.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
3 Sep. 2025
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The Twins were holding a historic fire sale, unloading 11 players on or just before deadline day.—
Jon Vankin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Aug. 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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Rather than discarding efficiency altogether, Kelly and his team are working to redefine it.—
Maria Williams,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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But yesterday, Rihanna did a sartorial 180, ditching her tomboyish ’fit for a girly, baby pink look.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
5 Sep. 2025
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While some people may experience fleeting sugar and caffeine withdrawal symptoms, ditching soda from your diet can lead to a host of long-term health benefits.—
Sarah Garone,
Health,
4 Sep. 2025
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The 74-year-old François Bayrou resigns on Tuesday after choosing to gamble his political survival on a confidence vote a day earlier—and losing it by a huge margin.—
Cole Stangler,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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Since then, Cracker Barrel has become a cookie-cutter corporate chain, steadily losing its Southern flavor.—
Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Sep. 2025
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From the outside, that must sound ludicrously harsh, even if Leverkusen were winless across those matches, losing to Hoffenheim and throwing away a 3-1 lead (with a man advantage) to draw 3-3 in Bremen on Saturday afternoon.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
2 Sep. 2025
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Starting over does not mean throwing away the earlier chapters.—
Benjamin Laker,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Casting (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/casting%20%28off%29. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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