throw
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Ohtani threw a 20-pitch bullpen — shorter than his customary between-starts session — on Friday to tentatively set him up to throw the first inning Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
People throw around the idea of “AI as a personal assistant” a lot, but this was the first time it hit me that artificial intelligence really has become my personal assistant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
"My dad had to throw her out the window and we had to catch her," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
If you’ve contributed aggressively to your retirement account and have more than this amount, taking a year off might not throw you off track.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
“Are you going to throw those? Should I duck?”
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
"I said, 'Well, that throws a new light on this. Because I can't give you half the publishing. I'm gonna leave that to my family,'" Parton told Reba McEntire's podcast in 2020.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Extremely structured to this day, if something throws off Freeman’s schedule, his “robot mind,” as he puts it, malfunctions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Day, Tyler, James and Fisher pretend nothing matters until an inexplicable cosmic force throws them into a situation where that becomes a reality.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
No one knows, but Paulsen throws out an alarming guess: He thinks we might see a 10% to 20% correction.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
“Yeah. I’m not good at a lot of things—like lay-ups, free throws, jump shots—but I can waste money.”
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
Saturday marked the first time he threw fewer than six innings since being activated this month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
With Itauma barely able to stand, his legs unsteady and body swaying before slumping in the corner, his team threw in the towel.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Mohammed had reached a plea deal where he would admit guilt in exchange for avoiding a death-penalty trial, but a federal appeals court threw out the agreement last summer.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
It threw out the schedule it had published two weeks earlier and started buying back long-term bonds in an effort to push the rate down.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
He tossed the cape and threw out his arms.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Ohtani had last thrown off the mound six days prior, in a live batting practice session last Saturday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Enormous quantities of material would have been thrown outward during the collision and redistributed across Deimos, burying many older surface features.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
He covers topics in the zeitgeist related to wellness, cultural etiquette, masculinity and lifestyle/style trends—basically all the weird, funny, inspired and horrifying things being thrown at us in this moment of "maxxing."
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
On 15 April, police were called to the offices of Volant Media in Park Royal, the parent company of Persian news channel Iran International, after an "ignited container" was thrown towards the site.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Why have we been thrown out of our homes and made to live like wild beasts?
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
The Bayoumi who Ratchford saw was captured on his never-before-broadcast home movies - throwing a ball around with his family by the Parkwood pool, laughing when it drifted into the water.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
“It just hasn’t been a whole body of work on the throwing side,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
"In the first half, we didn't play a really good game, but we could really count on everyone throwing everything into every ball and every cross," Jaissle said.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
“So, if throwing potentially cuts into that, that’s not worth the squeeze. So that’s something, for me, I’m very bullish on making sure we don’t compromise the hitting.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
"Just my luck," he groaned, throwing himself on his bed.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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