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Recent Examples of throw out At the June 2024 annual meeting, shareholders voted 84% in favor of restoring a massive 2018 pay package for Musk, which had been previously thrown out by a Delaware court. Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 10 July 2025 When the projector isn't throwing out sound, fan noise is quite noticeable, though the whirring does calm down somewhat when in eco mode (which outputs the lowest brightness). New Atlas, 9 July 2025 The Expedition 73 crew threw out their trash, prepared for the arrival of new cargo and played host to an international team of scientists, all while conducting science and maintaining their home away home during their week aboard the International Space Station. Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 4 July 2025 Trump in recent days has also inserted himself into Israeli domestic affairs, calling for charges against Netanyahu in his ongoing corruption trial to be thrown out. Aamer Madhani, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for throw out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for throw out
Verb
  • In March, 2008, the Post published a front-page story on Eliot Spitzer, then the governor of New York, who—after cracking down on prostitution rings while serving as the state’s attorney general, from 1999 to 2006—was outed as having patronized an escort service.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
  • Having identifying documents with gender markers that don’t appear to match how a person is presenting themself could foster an uncomfortable, sometimes dangerous, situation for people who are forced to out themselves as trans to strangers.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 6 July 2025
Verb
  • The sand, pre-washed and compacted upon arrival, was dumped into an 18-inch wooden frame, with elements such as hospitality added to help remove debris from the air.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
  • Or, excuse me, that should read Lily’s dancer boyfriend, Diego, dumped her and her subsequent breakdown is one more thing for Charlotte to worry about.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • The new Superman casts questions of power, romance, and decency against a very traditional comic book setting, and so does All Superheroes Need PR.
    Maureen Lee Lenker Published, EW.com, 15 July 2025
  • But what to do about all of the votes cast the first week or two?
    Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
Verb
  • Bondi earlier this week refused to answer questions from reporters about the Epstein files.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 July 2025
  • Her heir-apparent will have diminished authority, impossible expectations, and the unenviable task of modernizing an institution whose departing leader refuses to depart.
    Lilian Raji, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
Verb
  • The song is a tribute to musical nomads who chase the impulses of a song around the globe.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 14 July 2025
  • An ax-wielding stranger initially mistaken for a delivery driver chased a woman into her home, then led deputies on a 13-mile chase, a California sheriff’s office reported.
    Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2025
Verb
  • Off flavor: If the pineapple tastes sour or fizzy, discard it.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 13 July 2025
  • The first-stage booster that had been tapped during the original attempts was discarded for a new booster.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2025
Verb
  • Just last month, Stray Kids released its new EP, Hollow, but the project didn’t make much of a commercial impact in the United States.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • An independent inquiry into Wallace’s conduct on MasterChef will be published imminently, while next week, the BBC is expected to release an internal review into the failings that led to documentary, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, being narrated by the child of a Hamas minister.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 9 July 2025
Verb
  • New York’s 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Maxwell’s appeal effort last year, finding that the deal drawn up in 2007 and approved the following year only protected Epstein and his coconspirators in South Florida.
    Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 15 July 2025
  • If anyone else tries such commands, the AGI and ASI reject them summarily.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025

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