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Recent Examples of throw offThis strike was not intended to harm the people of Yemen, who rightly want to throw off the yoke of Houthi subjugation and live peacefully.—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025 After having started an AOL chat message friendship with President George W. Bush, Rumi is kidnapped from his home and thrown off a plane into Iraq, with the president himself directing the child to help the U.S. military track down and kill Osama Bin Laden.—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 18 Apr. 2025 That won’t be the case for everyone—athletes who have spent years honing their swings and timing could be thrown off by the new shape, and several players using torpedo bats have had terrible starts to this season.—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025 But Ukrainian jamming of satellite radios throws off Russian munitions’ accuracy more than Russian jamming throws off Ukrainian accuracy, as the Ukrainian bombs have superior backup guidance in the form of inertial systems that calculate a munition’s position by way of precise accelerometers.—David Axe, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for throw off
Critics suggested that Johnson timed the announcement to distract from the fact that he’d just been fined for attending a party in defiance of his own COVID restrictions, though the policy had been months in the making.
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Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
16 May 2025
These lingering to-dos consume mental energy, distract our focus, and elevate stress.
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