throw
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With two outs, Dodgers baserunners were going on contact and all three crossed the plate before Cardinals first baseman Alec Burleson could retrieve the ball and throw it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Index funds buy stocks in proportion to their current market value, meaning that they throw vastly more money into the stocks that are already expensive, and very little into those that are cheap and neglected.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Pokémon cards aren’t just some gaping money hole for you to throw cash at, either.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
“I think it would throw the historical process into question at a time when there are very tight budget constraints,” Stone said of the bonuses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Would they throw me into their hoard and guard me too?
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
"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
That’s because Tugboat throws from an unusually low angle that opponents aren’t accustomed to seeing, with mechanics that allow him to effectively hide the ball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Ama tries to pick it up, but Danso throws her arms around Ama’s waist and holds her back.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Rather than addressing the substantive crisis of military readiness, however, Pentagon officials threw a tantrum.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
The weekend after that ominous door note, Rugen threw another party.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Shohei Ohtani threw about 20 pitches in the side session, which Dodgers manager Dave Roberts noted was “short,” but he said he had no expectation for a pitch count.
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
The flapper nodded and grinned, then threw the whole bundle down.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Legal representatives for the BBC are looking to have the case thrown out, and the corporation has previously apologised for an "error of judgement" in the editing of the programme.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 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
"We were putting out thousands of party balloons every single week," she said, but they were only there "for a matter of hours simply to be popped and thrown in the trash".
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
He fumbled to put it back, but it kept slipping through his paws, his coordination thrown by the lurching raft.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Rushing has been on the IL since early August, has been working through a hitting progression, and according to manager Dave Roberts, has also started a throwing program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
AI hyperscalers throwing gigantic sums at chip makers are eating up the capacity Apple needs, chiefly for memory and storage chips, as well as logic chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 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
"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
I made it home just as the snow really got going, throwing a white veil over Deer Hill.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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