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also sluffed (off)
as in lost
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
finally sloughed off the depression that had been weighing him down for months
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Since May 2020, at least 20 homes have been lost.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025 -
Data from the commission show from 2020 to 2023, consumers lost more than $110 million in scams involving Bitcoin ATMs.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
4 Oct. 2025
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Not in the response from the armed Palestinian group were other provisions detailing Gaza's future, including some Hamas has long rejected.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
5 Oct. 2025
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Sancho rejected a contract offer at Manchester City to join Dortmund in 2017.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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That drive fell apart two plays later when Madsen tossed his third of four interceptions in the game.—
Rachel Roberts,
Idaho Statesman,
4 Oct. 2025
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Carbonara When the pasta is tossed with the eggy cheese sauce, the noodles quickly soak up every drop.—
Robin Miller,
AZCentral.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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By the numbers, Helene dumped upwards of 30 inches of rain across the region, resulting in 108 casualties, 73,000 affected homes, and $60 billion in damages for Western North Carolina alone.—
Garret K. Woodward,
Rolling Stone,
4 Oct. 2025
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Local authorities were initially called to a Maverik gas station in Cedar City, roughly 215 miles from where Kirk was shot, after Utah state officials alerted police that alleged shooter Tyler Robinson, 22, may have dumped evidence in a nearby trash can.—
Michael Ruiz , Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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The team, based mainly at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, devised a method to remove the extra chromosomes by mimicking natural cell division in a way that causes one set of 23 to be discarded, leaving a functional egg cell.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
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The aspects of Dalton’s theory that disagreed with reality were discarded, just as the aspects of Democritus’s ideas that didn’t align with reality were not kept as part of the theory.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
30 Sep. 2025
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But Miller, the trash guy, seems to have more info on them than evidence, and let’s slip that Oliver got (and threw away) a generous offer on his apartment.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
23 Sep. 2025
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An Arkansas woman almost threw away a winning lottery ticket with a big prize.—
Jennifer Rodriguez,
Kansas City Star,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Sloughed (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sloughed%20%28off%29. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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