throwaways

noun

plural of throwaway
1
as in castaways

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2
as in pamphlets

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for throwaways
  1. castaways
  2. pamphlets
  3. discards
  4. booklets
  5. culls
  6. folders
  7. seconds
  8. catalogs
Noun
  • As fans recall, season 50 featured a guest appearance by MrBeast, who challenged the castaways to correctly guess a coin toss to double the $1 million prize.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Meet the 'Survivor' 51 castaways Are there any players from Michigan on 'Survivor' 51?
    — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of castaways
Noun
  • Volunteers hand out cookies and sliced oranges for breakfast, while organizers run a workshop on collective action and others hand out pamphlets.
    — Erika Page, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Because of the family’s involvement in the Hispanic community, Juanito was well-known, says Orta, who met with them last week and made sure there were resource pamphlets available at the young man’s wake.
    — Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of pamphlets
Noun
  • And defunct iIndustry supplied artistic entrepreneurs with adaptable real-estate discards, like London’s Bankside Power Station, which evolved into Herzog & de Meuron’s Tate Modern.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 29 July 2026
  • Li has dedicated freezer bags for different dishes, like vegetable scraps for soups or fruit discards for smoothies.
    — Emily Siner, NPR, 27 June 2026
Definition of discards
Noun
  • Catalogs, booklets and leave-behinds can carry a brand story longer than a QR code and scroll can.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • How about heaps of photos of the guys with haircuts, guyliner, and nail polish, and CD booklets sodden with semen, blood, and piss?
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2026
Definition of booklets
Noun
  • Even the World Organization for Animal Health, whose guidelines the CFIA follows, is reconsidering how effective culls are in halting bird-flu outbreaks in a world where the next wild duck to land at a farm could trigger another one.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
  • In a letter to Defence Minister Luke Pollard this week, 18 MPs and one member of the House of Lords urged the government to stop using bear pelts sourced from legal culls in Canada and instead adopt faux-fur alternatives.
    — James Frater, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of culls
Noun
  • The club secretary opened her computer and showed multiple folders that demonstrated just how much evidence a football club attempting to refloat has to provide.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026
  • This component's other skills include locating large files and folders, locating empty files, irretrievably erasing drives (other than the boot drive), uninstalling apps, and defragmenting disks and the registry.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of folders
Noun
  • The confusion came in the final seconds of OT when New York trailed and Angel Reese was at the foul line.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Same lethal drug, different outcomes After the pentobarbital was administered Wednesday night, Howard took a couple of breaths and gasped, the AP reported, before making snoring sounds that grew quiet within 30 seconds.
    — Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of seconds
Noun
  • The expansion will also introduce new catalogs in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish and more, with more than 120 languages in total.
    — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Its Shopper Agent connects brand catalogs to ChatGPT through the Agentic Commerce Protocol.
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of catalogs
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