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throws away

verb

present tense third-person singular of throw away
1
as in dumps
to get rid of as useless or unwanted I should throw away that torn shirt

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2
as in spends
to use up carelessly if you buy a high-end computer, you'll just be throwing away money on a bunch of features you'll never use

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Recent Examples of throws away Every draft Stewart throws away trains his instinct for the line worth keeping. — Dr. Mario García, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 Each year, the average American throws away nearly 1,800 pounds of trash. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 22 May 2026 Its chair, Beatrice Rindevall, said each Swede throws away around 9-10 kilograms (20-22 pounds) of clothes. — ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026 The program has focused on turning waste into artwork while raising awareness about how much plastic the community throws away. — Spencer Wilson, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026 Last season, Penn State was a few throws away from reaching the national championship game, leading at halftime but falling to Notre Dame 26-23 in the Orange Bowl. — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for throws away
  1. dumps
  2. spends
  3. discards
  4. runs through
  5. ditches
  6. loses
  7. unloads
  8. throws out
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  • How Monster Depicts the Borden Murders Their first attempt involves serving the couple oysters in May, when the series says the city of Fall River dumps its sewage over the oyster beds, contaminating the shellfish with potentially fatal bacteria.
    — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Parks and Rec says anyone who illegally dumps could face fines totaling $5,000 per piece of material.
    — Brandon Goldner, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of dumps
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  • Now, his son told members of Congress, Salgado Araujo’s wife spends those evenings visiting her husband’s grave at the cemetery.
    — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Daliah Singer is a freelance journalist based in Denver, Colorado, who spends a lot of time daydreaming about where to travel next.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of spends
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  • If that prediction is wrong, the processor discards the work, although traces can remain behind.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The solution lies in circular economies, where Asia alone discards $91 billion in unrecovered metals annually.
    — Rob Kaplan, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of discards
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  • Later in the show, The Sun’s Matt Weyrich runs through the biggest news and notes from the Orioles’ final week of the regular season, including Jackson Holliday undergoing wrist surgery.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The city runs through the film, and through the characters, and that was very important to us.
    — Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of runs through
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  • Costco ditches its Kirkland beer Pope Leo XIV, who grew up listening to popular American television preacher Archbishop Fulton Sheen, praised his fellow Illinois clergyman as an inspiration today on the eve of Sheen’s beatification.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Treat standing water − such as retention ponds or drainage ditches − with a mosquito larvicide.
    — Susan Bromley, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of ditches
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  • What Wells-Wonsley most wanted to know—as any parent who loses a child under a cloud of uncertainty would—was how her son died.
    — Cristian Farias, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Success loses some of its shine when your private world is absorbing all the strain.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of loses
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  • In the ad, Yang unloads on his therapist, played by comedienne Ana Gasteyer, about his guilt over gatekeeping a really fantastic beauty product from the group chat.
    — Irene Richardson, InStyle, 25 Sep. 2026
  • This tricky false flat unloads the suspension before a hard dive into Turn 2’s double apex lefthander, where the Bimota’s active-aero winglets require serious commitment to truly appreciate.
    — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of unloads
Verb
  • Park then throws out a question already on the minds of Pugh’s fans and collaborators.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Additional Tips for Washing Throw Blankets Schrader suggests shaking the throw blankets out regularly, removing lint or pet hair with a fabric brush, and airing throws out outside on a nice day to help keep throws in between washes.
    — Sheila Kim, The Spruce, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of throws out

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“Throws away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/throws%20away. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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