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
Each year, the average American throws away nearly 1,800 pounds of trash.
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Brittney Melton,
NPR,
22 May 2026
Its chair, Beatrice Rindevall, said each Swede throws away around 9-10 kilograms (20-22 pounds) of clothes.
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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.
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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.
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Chris Vannini,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
22 May 2026
Its chair, Beatrice Rindevall, said each Swede throws away around 9-10 kilograms (20-22 pounds) of clothes.
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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.
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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.
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Chris Vannini,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for throws away
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News 12 reported that the boy's body had been discovered at a waste collection center in Stamford, having been brought there by a truck that dumps trash and recyclables there.
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Towns dumps the ball off to Mitchell Robinson for his easiest two points of the night.
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Spoilers Ahead Kara is introduced as a reckless party animal, who spends her time seeking out planets orbiting red suns, to weaken her superpowered metabolism and become intoxicated.
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BestReviews spends thousands of hours researching, analyzing and testing products to recommend the best picks for most consumers.
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Try the Storm Chaser, which sends you into a zero-gravity fall, catches you in a funnel, then discards you into a pool below.
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At the same time, Gans discards the psychological and spatial logic that gave meaning to the original telling’s dream-like sense of disorientation.
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Social media posts by the company say the jet was participating in the NJ Air Show, which began Friday and runs through Sunday at the Greenwood Lake Airport.
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Walmart's competing June Prime Day event kicks off Monday, June 22 and runs through Sunday, June 28, bringing steep discounts—up to 50% off—on everything from pantry staples to summer essentials.
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Meta ditches Ray-Ban and adds Kylie Jenner.
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Fulda all but ditches his ambitious partner Chaton (Vincent Dedienne), in order to team up with Stéphane to get to the bottom of the endless pig-slaughter, and to put paid to the local superstition that Brun’s ghost may be the culprit.
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The deeper the water, the sooner a vehicle loses traction on the road.
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Sweden loses key piece The first half was a sloppy slugfest as both teams tried to use their physicality to assume control.
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An oil tanker unloads crude oil at a terminal at the port in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province on March 11, 2026.
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After his dreams are all but dashed, Shah unloads on himself.
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What begins as a simple burglary spirals into a nightmarish ordeal after one sister throws out her back and becomes immobilized on the second floor.
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That, along with the public opposition, contributed to the 20-year moratorium Thursday’s Senate vote throws out.
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