threw back

verb

past tense of throw back
as in fell

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  1. fell
  2. declined
  3. returned
  4. degenerated
  5. worsened
  6. dropped
  7. reverted
Verb
  • Countless trees were felled and taken to Eugene for processing in mills or floated up the Willamette to Portland, the sawn trunks chained together in massive, bobbing rafts.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
  • Messi had produced another vintage performance three weeks earlier, this time at the Nou Camp, where the Bayern Munich defender Jerome Boateng toppled over like a tree that had been felled.
    — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 10 July 2026
Definition of fell
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  • The business remained open Saturday afternoon, but employees declined to comment on the raid when reached by phone.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 July 2026
  • When Britain withdrew from the Gulf, Qatar declined to fold into the federation that became the United Arab Emirates and took independence alone in 1971, under Sheikh Ahmad bin Ali, before Hamad's branch of the family held power.
    — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
Definition of declined
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  • Then the rains returned, and the home was destroyed again, worse than before.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
  • On Sunday, however, the agency backtracked and said a test of the brand’s lettuce for the cyclospora parasite had returned a false positive.
    — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of returned
Verb
  • Macron’s highest aspirations to, as a modern Talleyrand, inject himself and solve global issues such as Ukraine, Africa’s Sahel, Syria, Lebanon, or Iran have fallen short, degenerated into petty feuds, or backfired.
    — Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Last fall, a Krousty Sabaïdi giveaway promoted by popular French influencer Fares Salvatore, who has more than 868,000 followers on TikTok, degenerated into mayhem when the call-out attracted 3,000 teenagers.
    — Vivian Song, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
Definition of degenerated
Verb
  • Five of six different brain tests showed diranersen recipients’ memory and other cognitive abilities still worsened but more slowly than those given dummy shots, Mummery said.
    — Lauran Neergaard, Fortune, 14 July 2026
  • Neighbors who saw smoke coming from the home reached Bo and Addie before conditions worsened.
    — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 14 July 2026
Definition of worsened
Verb
  • Asian stock markets also dropped on Friday in another wobble from investors over the sustainability of the AI boom.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
  • On Thursday, the Hawks dropped their fourth game of the Summer League tournament in Las Vegas.
    — Lauren Williams, AJC.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of dropped
Verb
  • Aside from those outlier seasons, escrow money mostly reverted back to owner, and the COVID-19 pandemic forced the league to send the withholding percentages skyward.
    — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 13 July 2026
  • The effect hasn’t mean-reverted.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 June 2026
Definition of reverted
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