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thrown

adjective as in hurled

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Still, judges there haven’t thrown out all the cases they worked on.

A recycle and reuse event that aims to reduce costs to families and save items from being thrown away, has expanded to another town.

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“I don’t want to be thrown into anything that could jeopardize my career. I want to be wise about what I choose,” he said.

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We find Louis Armstrong in a louder moment, his body and his trumpet framed by the long bell of a neighbor’s clarinet, his head thrown back in rollicking laughter.

Those years saw the emergence of shortstop Derek Jeter and a pair of perfect games thrown by pitchers David Wells and David Cone.

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

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