Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for throwaways
Noun
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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 -
One guy simply voted for his fellow castaways in alphabetical order.—
Julie Beck,
The Atlantic,
12 May 2026
Noun
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Sometimes, that means giving [the pamphlets] out to the kids to give to their parents.—
Racquel Bazos,
Baltimore Sun,
11 June 2026
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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
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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
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The vast majority of those discards wind up in the trash, further exacerbating the avocado’s environmental impact.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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Officials have adopted a road map for bear population management that calls for systematic culls.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 June 2026
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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
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All of this documentation is stored in a few online folders.—
Gene Marks,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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The district also suspended her email access, and deleted several items from her email folders, the suit said.—
Becca Savransky,
Idaho Statesman,
9 June 2026
Noun
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With eight seconds to go, Harper fouled Mikal Bridges after Brunson nearly turned the ball over on a play that could have easily been whistled as a foul.—
Kyle Feldscher,
CNN Money,
14 June 2026
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Castle’s putback dunk cut the deficit to two with 16 seconds left, but Mikal Bridges split a pair on the other end to give the Spurs the ball with eight seconds left, trailing by three.—
Dan Zaksheske,
FOXNews.com,
14 June 2026
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The concert also mined the catalogs of three of the members of His All Starr Band — guitarist-vocalist Steve Lukather from Toto, vocalist-guitarist Colin Hay of Men at Work and bassist-vocalist Hamish Stuart from Average White Band.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
12 June 2026
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Janski orders a mix of new and old through catalogs.—
John Lauritsen,
CBS News,
11 June 2026
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“Throwaways.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/throwaways. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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