throwaways

noun

plural of throwaway
1
as in castaways

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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
  • 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
Definition of castaways
Noun
  • Buses transported families, including children and teenagers, from Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, while young activists from Ben Gvir’s and Smotrich’s parties handed out campaign materials and pamphlets.
    — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
  • Parents with children and groups of friends mill about, and leftist student organizations chat with passersby, handing out pamphlets.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 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
  • The same strain has forced record culls and pushed up egg prices across North America and Europe, and Australian flocks have no exposure to it.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • Officials have adopted a road map for bear population management that calls for systematic culls.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 June 2026
Definition of culls
Noun
  • The shelves are stocked with crayons, markers, construction paper, notebooks, folders, binders, dry-erase markers and other classroom materials.
    — Tori Mason, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Affordable finds include notebooks, folders, pencils, crayons, glue sticks and other must-haves.
    — Casey DelBasso, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of folders
Noun
  • The moon's shadow will sweep across Greenland, Iceland, the Atlantic, Spain, and Portugal, offering up to 2 minutes 18 seconds of totality.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • There was the guy Daemon stabbed through the ear, and then the smelly killers Gwayne sniffed out, and now Ser Adrian, who took a knife to the throat within seconds of seeing Aemond.
    — Brian Grubb, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of seconds
Noun
  • These systems aim to connect common vocabularies, graphs, data catalogs and enterprise metadata into one coherent semantic layer.
    — Harini Gopalakrishnan, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Since emerging with 1998’s Dressed Up Like Nebraska, Rouse has quietly built one of Americana’s most consistently rewarding catalogs.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of catalogs
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