throwaways

plural of throwaway

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for throwaways
Noun
  • The show tests a group of castaways as they are stranded on the islands of Fiji.
    Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Previous castaways that will play (again) in the 50th season have been announced via CBS's Instagram.
    Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The discards fill recycling bins to the brim and clutter closets, basements and hallways.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In some accounts of American history, the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin decisively turned public opinion against slavery, accomplishing what pamphlets and political rhetoric could not.
    Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Over its final thirty years the abolitionist movement was a popular cause written about in novels, poems, and pamphlets that Austen would have known about and read.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This bass species had the genes for a range of survival strategies before the culls started, Zarri says.
    Martin J. Kernan, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Also, Zojirushi appliances of all types (rice cookers included) come with dense, sometimes hard-to-follow instruction booklets.
    Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Travel log booklets can be downloaded online or picked up at the county’s visitors centers when open.
    Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Giovanni Elber scored 11 seconds into a match with Hamburg in January 1998, and Lothar Matthaus took just 13 seconds to find the net against Borussia Monchengladbach in April 1986.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Studnicka scored twice — opening scoring 56 seconds into regulation and capping it 28 seconds into overtime on the power play — to lead the Panthers to a 4-3 preseason win over the Carolina Hurricanes at Amerant Bank Arena.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This app builds on the same code base as AxCrypt Premium and now includes features that earlier versions skipped, such as generating passwords, securing entire folders, and encrypting blocks of text.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The color of your folders, which also controls the tint of icons and widgets in tinted mode.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That album record is arguably chief among a canon of essential pressings that collectors almost always have in their catalogs, so both younger buyers and longtime record enthusiasts seek it out.
    Heather Bushman, IndyStar, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In the days following, clips and videos of the nuptials have dominated social media — and resulted in streaming increases for both rappers’ catalogs.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Throwaways.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/throwaways. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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