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"Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio."

From BBC

“When you don’t know how much contact’s going to be allowed, it does throw off that rhythm, which increases your injury risk.”

The snippets of English, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish alongside Korean threw off a local walking past who asked, "Why are there so many foreigners here?"

From BBC

Its colonizing project was carried out just as other colonized peoples were throwing off their rulers.

From Salon

After Glasnow had thrown one bullpen session a week and a half earlier, a bout of back tightness had kept him from throwing off a mound again since.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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