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toss

[taws, tos] / tɔs, tɒs /






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Another run scored when a high toss by Betts to Alex Freeland pulled the second baseman off the bag.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2026

To try to avoid bringing it home with her after work, she’d toss all her clothes immediately into the dryer so the heat could kill any eggs that may have hitchhiked on her.

From Salon Sep. 9, 2026

“Market pricing for a September hike is currently a coin toss near 50%,” the team adds.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 7, 2026

Said football coach David Avramovich: “It’s very common for them playing long toss or being in the cage once or twice a week. They’re walking by with their bats.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

“Can you toss this in the recycling for us, please?”

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Shakur’s rapping is casually virtuosic, suave even as he tosses off boasts, taunts and threats.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

She rewards fans with a few of Glinda's signature hair tosses, external and, more importantly, a two-hour show that highlights the incredible agility of the star's voice.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

Nolan’s work is designed to bring out everyone’s inner critic and professor, but his execution of “The Odyssey” tosses us plenty of bones to pick.

From Salon Aug. 2, 2026

Richards tosses off one indelible riff after another, making “Rocks Off,” “Happy,” “Tumbling Dice” and “All Down the Line” rock and roll perfection.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

He pulls a few shirts and some shorts off a shelf and tosses them onto a glass counter.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

De Paula tossed his bat aside, looked into the Dodgers dugout and slapped his chest across the letters.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

It was then switched into a state that was almost unaffected by the magnetic field, allowing it to move freely under gravity, following a ballistic trajectory similar to a ball tossed into the air.

From Science Daily Sep. 8, 2026

But innovation will remain a hard sell so long as users remain entranced by the big blur, where art becomes media, media becomes content, and content becomes time tossed into the wind.

From Salon Aug. 27, 2026

Such changes address the AGs’ core complaints, including claims the judge had tossed under Section 230.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

He ripped it off and tossed it to the floor.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Your needles, pins, your thread,   And tapes all lost— Your housewife here,   And there your work-bag tost.

From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by E. W. (Edward William) Cole

Here rivers in the sea were lost; There mountains in the skies were tost; Here tumbling billows marked the coast, With surging foam; There, distant shone, Art's lofty boast, The lordly dome.

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull

One wild gull in the offing lost, Wilder heart in my bosom tost.

From Sea Poems by Cale Young Rice

Oh throne of the world, to the war-dogs tost!

From Captain Sword and Captain Pen A Poem by Leigh Hunt

The miller dreams not at what cost The quivering mill-stones hum and whirl, Nor how for every turn, are tost Armfuls of diamond and of pearl.

From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell

Ohtani’s planned buildup from tossing live batting practice on Aug. 22, to preparing to possibly start a little more than a week later, instead ended with the Dodgers shutting him down from throwing.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

At the least, those responses seem more likely than if the boss were tossing around vagaries on a podcast.

From Slate Sep. 1, 2026

Soccer’s velvety, polarizing honcho had the planet begrudgingly tossing confetti at his custom Stan Smiths.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

That includes her niece who has cleared the entire fridge of any produce, tossing it all into the rubbish, including what Michelle saw as a perfectly good watermelon.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

She spun and returned the book to the pile on the armchair, tossing it on top.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack




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