throwaways

plural of throwaway

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for throwaways
Noun
  • But the Hurricanes turned speedy castaways like Ehlers, Miller, Taylor Hall and Eric Robinson into Cup champions.
    Murat Ates, New York Times, 17 June 2026
  • Other castaways struggled with how to present themselves on screen while playing this game of cons and elimination.
    Shaan Merchant, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • Sometimes, that means giving [the pamphlets] out to the kids to give to their parents.
    Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 11 June 2026
  • These invasion fictions took a range of forms, from short stories and pamphlets to novellas and full-length novels, and proliferated especially in the late-Victorian and Edwardian period leading up to World War I, which brought the subgenre’s brief flourishing to an end.
    Ivan Kreilkamp, JSTOR Daily, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • Le Zotte reports that by the 1970s, more than 10 million garage sales were taking place in the United States every year, and people were paying more than $1 billion (cumulatively) for their neighbors’ discards.
    Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
  • This is a creative process whereby discards are cleaned and sent to factory, where they are cut, re-shaped and sewn into a new end product.
    Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • Near the 90th Street-Elmhurst station, dozens stand in the shade trading Panini stickers of World Cup players to paste in collectible booklets.
    Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 11 June 2026
  • The bound paper booklets in which students hand-write their responses to test questions have surged in popularity during the AI explosion.
    Jamil Zaki, CNBC, 12 May 2026
Noun
  • Officials have adopted a road map for bear population management that calls for systematic culls.
    ABC News, ABC News, 9 June 2026
  • Meanwhile, resistance to AI applications is growing in the world’s second-largest economy as worker fears of mass job culls rise.
    Semafor Events, semafor.com, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Additionally, as part of the enhancements which come to other brands in the Creative Cloud suite there are new organizational capabilities, which can label folders usefully and gather relevant items into them, streamlining a tedious clean-up process.
    David Phelan, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • There's just something about folders.
    Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • Soufiane Rahimi turned aside one final Scotland corner in the closing seconds to secure the win for Morocco.
    Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 20 June 2026
  • Herro is subbed in with 26 seconds left in overtime and the Heat down 125-120.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 20 June 2026
Noun
  • This initiative aims to empower artists, giving them control and better compensation for their catalogs, especially for legacy tracks where original contracts have expired.
    Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • The new bundle should help the two mid-tier services pool catalogues and blunt churn while minimizing the onerous cost of trying to compete on spending with the global giants.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026
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“Throwaways.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/throwaways. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.

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