hurl
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I will admit, at times I wanted to hurl my laptop into the Pacific.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
Moments later his epic 54-yard hurl to Marvin Mims Jr paid off spectacularly, caught deep downfield.
From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026
This rapid rearrangement can heat plasma to millions of degrees and hurl energized particles away from the site, creating a solar flare.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 21, 2026
Martin carried the can, but he didn't sign the players, he didn't hurl huge money, in Scottish terms, at players with, at best, questionable track records.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2025
Sputnik was proof, American policymakers assumed, that the Soviet Union had intercontinental ballistic missiles—many of them, hundreds perhaps, with the power to hurl an atomic weapon at US cities.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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The reason anyone who hurls themselves off a mountain for a living might perform such a procedure is a matter of aerodynamics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
While he hurls baseless accusations and complaints in that episode, Funches presents a compelling case against another player, Atlanta Housewife Porsha Williams, at a banishment debate.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026
“Napoleon Dynamite” director Jared Hess hurls tater tots and two competitive dorks played by Jack Black and Jason Momoa into the cubist, mega-popular video game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2025
But if Mr. Macron doesn’t bend, he risks cementing his image as “Jupiter,” who hurls down orders from above and takes counsel from few, analysts say.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
She winds up Like a pitcher And hurls a pomegranate.
From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto
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As they were exchanging back slaps and handshakes, someone hurled the first insult: “Did My Little Pony throw up in your closet? I hate it when that happens.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
One star is hurled away, while the other is captured into orbit around the black hole.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
But the insults hurled by both sides that day passed freely through the bars.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Maher said he brought with him to the dinner a list of almost five dozen epithets the president had hurled his way over the years, intending to ask Trump to sign it for him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
The shock wave hurled us off our feet.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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North Korea has recently been hurling criticism at Japan, a former regional colonial power, over what Pyongyang describes as its remilitarisation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
At the time, Nasa described pyrocumulonimbus as "the fire-breathing dragon of clouds, external" as they funnelled a smoke-like chimney into the earth's atmosphere while hurling thunderbolts, wind and rain.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Since then, restaurant chains have been hurling discounts and deals at consumers to win them back.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
His first was pure Haaland, the game’s best finisher hurling his big lower body into the net for a violent scoring strike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Over there they were hurling their bodies at a blocking sled, trying to drive it backward.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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