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noun

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Recent Examples of throwaway
Verb
TruMedia has a stat called splash plays, which includes sacks, tackles for loss, pressures leading to a throwaway, run stuffs and batted passes. Daniel Popper, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025 When in doubt, skip the sign-up or use a throwaway email. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
The pasta dishes should be thrown away or returned to where they were purchased. Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 29 Sep. 2025 Consumers should check their refrigerators and freezers, throw away affected products, and watch for Listeria symptoms. Amber Brenza, Health, 29 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for throwaway
Recent Examples of Synonyms for throwaway
Verb
  • With exactly 11 minutes remaining, Walker dumped a screen pass off to O’Brien.
    Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In some cases, a major winter storm will dump heavy snow in northern areas, while the South contends with a springlike severe storm threat from the same system.
    Chris Dolce, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • With wine pairings, expect to spend around €120 for two people.
    Emilio Parra Doiztua, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Fortune’s series, The Good Life, shows how up-and-coming leaders spend their time and money outside of work.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In 48 seasons, not a single Survivor castaway has been removed from the game as a result of an animal attack.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Previous castaways that will play (again) in the 50th season have been announced via CBS's Instagram.
    Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Tennessean looked at weekly circulars from more than a dozen stores, including Middle Tennessee staples like Aldi, Dollar General, BJ's Wholesale Club.
    Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Several space observatories did watch the asteroid, according to an Oct. 2 update from the Minor Planet Center, which shares information quickly with the astronomy community through an electronic circular.
    Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In the trailer, it is shown that if you are caught indulging in a brief moment of pleasure, you are packed away into a human-sized cardboard box and quickly discarded into a heap of other passionate offenders.
    Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The foods were voluntarily discarded.
    Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Max Muncy had just hurt his knee and would be out for a month, a 9-14 stretch when the team lost the bulk of what had been a nine-game division lead.
    Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Debate rages on in Pennsylvania as to whether the Eagles offense is too predictable, or simply ineffective after the Eagles lost their second straight game last week, an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the Giants on Thursday Night Football.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Şengün, whose five 3s were a career high, put the Rockets ahead, 102-101, with 38 seconds left in regulation on a short turnaround jumper.
    Joe Vardon, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2025
  • That led to the signing and return of Mason Plumlee, bringing back the veteran for a second for of duty.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Ofcom ditched the proposal, opting instead to change guidance.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
  • To match her dress and toasty makeup look, Bieber ditched nude nails in favor of a chocolate brown cat-eye effect.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Throwaway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/throwaway. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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