thrown out

past participle of throw out
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Recent Examples of thrown out Lindsay Clancy's defense attorney is planning to push for the charges against his client to be thrown out after her triple-murder case ended in a mistrial last week. Melina Khan, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026 The dads telling the dad who was thrown out to leave the beer. Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2026 Not even two weeks ago in Los Angeles, the Phillies had four runners thrown out at third and home in a two-game span. Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026 Entering Tuesday, Smith already had thrown out three base runners attempting to steal in his first week back. Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 Her game plan is thrown out of whack when a new girl, Ericka (Jasmine Amy Rogers), arrives from Ohio. Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026 Attorneys for both Morrow and Stanley maintain that the misdemeanor charges for forcible assault should be thrown out, too. Charlotte Observer, 2 Sep. 2026 Indeed, the case against Lizzo was thrown out in December 2024. Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2026 In an attempt to make the case against him, Pembrock commits a stunning act of illegality that would immediately have the case thrown out of court but at least provides the film a few moments of suspense. Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thrown out
Verb
  • Oli Marmol was later ejected after sticking up for Rincon, who was making his MLB debut.
    Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Marmol then came out of the dugout to confront Eddings and was ejected during the Rockies’ five-run inning.
    Michael Kelly, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • On the night before everything came to an end, a cold front dumped about an inch-and-a-half of rain on New York City.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • But she was abruptly dumped toward the end of the season, anyway, with three episodes still left to film.
    Michael Callahan, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Joyful noise and other, impolite sounds radiated from the sets oscillating between the two sites.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Feliciano and Jones radiated energy and exuberance throughout their first press conference as the principal owners of the Padres.
    Dennis Lin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • José Dias Toffoli, who previously stepped down from overseeing the Banco Master case because of his links to Vorcaro, also refused to vote.
    MAURICIO SAVARESE, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Many families who are cited in the lawsuit said the insurer refused to test their homes for contaminants.
    Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Co-owner John Mara is battling cancer, and co-owner Steve Tisch is laying low after being outed in the Epstein Files.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Photoplay’s feature Hollywood’s Unmarried Husbands and Wives outed several of the era’s most bankable couples—Clark Gable and Carole Lombard among them—for the crime of cohabitating without paperwork.
    Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • But having an awards show that celebrates television presented on a streaming platform behind a pay wall would be a major symbolic statement that traditional viewing on the networks has lost its cultural relevance.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Officers said the vehicle traveled to the right and struck a curb and a tree, splitting in two and catching fire, after the driver lost control.
    Adam England, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • While both cast themselves as fighters against corruption in Washington, Manzur has argued that Pappas has long been beholden to political donors, particularly the pro-Israel lobby.
    ABC News, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Counterbalancing him is a young actor cast to play one of the show’s decoys (an excellent Skylar Gisondo), whose guilelessness only magnifies the film’s sense of Hansen as a man constructed entirely out of TV-friendly sheen.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • This strategy also helps employers get to know phenomenal candidates whose applications are going to accidentally be rejected by the ATS and AI systems.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The Alliance rejected accusations of greenwashing at the time, saying its mandate was to identify scalable collection, sorting and recycling solutions and that projects operating at the edge of commercial viability would not all succeed.
    Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026

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“Thrown out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thrown%20out. Accessed 17 Sep. 2026.

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