chucking

present participle of chuck
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as in leaving
to give up (a job or office) I swear, I have half a mind to chuck this job and become a hermit!

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Recent Examples of chucking Instead of chucking your hair dryer and cord under the sink, Adriana Aziz of Maid for You recommends making use of the cabinet’s vertical space. Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025 Hurts punctuated one score by chucking the ball into the stands and shrugging his shoulders much like his friend and mentor, Michael Jordan, who received a nice ovation when he was shown on the big screen. Dan Gelston, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025 If there’s an argument for chucking reason to the wind and just enjoying the vibes, then the experimental musician Moses Sumney, as the jester Feste, is best at making it. Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025 Brett Ryan, aided by Robbie Carter’s young daughter, scurried to place markers at the sites of the longest throws, before chucking the corpses back to the starting line. Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chucking
Verb
  • However, salary-dumping Drummond wouldn't come without risk for the Sixers.
    Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In an interview, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava noted that dumping dogs is a top complaint in the agricultural area of South Miami-Dade known as Redland.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The world might end up ruled by large technology companies that impose their solutions throughout entire continents, leaving little space for homegrown creativity.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Many travelers like to take that whole week off, leaving the weekend before Christmas.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • There was a blow-up doll that people were throwing around in the audience.
    Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025
  • If Jennings can’t play, Jones will be throwing to a receiver group that caught a grand total of four passes in Week 1, with all of them being Ricky Pearsall’s.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • Within 24 to 48 hours of quitting carbs, your glycogen stores—the body's backup energy supply—start to run out.
    Caitlin Pagán, Verywell Health, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Unhappy, actively quitting players do not buy Eververse armor.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • During that span, Browning went 4-3 as the team’s starter while tossing 12 touchdowns to just seven interceptions.
    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
Verb
  • With more and more people ditching larger sizes, the store has had to be reset multiple times.
    Kevin Williams, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Give and Take All the new iPhones use eSIM worldwide, ditching physical SIM cards for good.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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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“Chucking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chucking. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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