as in discarded
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
he flung away the used matchstick flinging off dirty clothes
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In 2019, discarded e-waste globally was valued at more than $57 billion.—
Kristen Edgreen Kaufman,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026 -
Short’s personality and complexity, attributes long discarded as her life became bastardized, stand in stark contrast to the inhumanity of her death.—
Nathan Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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Thanksgiving weekend in 1950 was marked by a wintry storm that dumped a deadly amount of snow across the Appalachian region.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
25 Jan. 2026
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Rhodes dumped Fatu out of the ring with a clothesline followed by a suicide dive.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
25 Jan. 2026
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Tensions rose during this protest, and an officer unloaded several pepper balls all over Garcia’s body.—
Graham Hurley,
CNN Money,
20 Jan. 2026
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Though the Dietz family's guns were apparently left locked in a safe and unloaded, that wasn't enough to prevent the child from accessing one.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
17 Jan. 2026
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First, Cameron Diaz ditched stilettos for ballet flats, and now Carrie Underwood just showed off another comfy (yet totally polished) alternative.—
Nicol Natale,
PEOPLE,
28 Jan. 2026
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Margot Robbie has ditched the hot pink Barbie Land in favor of the windswept moors of Wuthering Heights, and her hair has too!—
Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
27 Jan. 2026
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The head of a medical watchdog group unleashed on Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) after a nurse at the school's hospital lost her job over TikTok videos that went viral for all the wrong reasons.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The Italians fought and lost to Robert Moses’s wrecking whims; Puerto Ricans who could fled to Jersey for the privilege of a backyard.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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His former colleagues say they’d be shocked if Rieder threw away his role to become a simple loyalist.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
27 Jan. 2026
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Hurts threw away the subsequent third-and-12.—
Brooks Kubena,
New York Times,
1 Jan. 2026
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“Flung (off or away).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flung%20%28off%20or%20away%29. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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