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[taws, tos] / tɔs, tɒs /






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However, they also said their boards would toss them out if they took their attention away from strategies to drive shorter-term gains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Every offseason, the Hurricanes toss the keys to their program to a passer who just walked in the door.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

QB Grady Long of La Serna warms up like a pitcher with long toss throwing a football 50 yards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

"If I need to move furniture at home, I can do that, I can toss my grandchildren in the air, I can play games with them," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

I grab a second bar, toss it to him.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

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

She delights in covering her hair with a white shirt she tosses over her shoulders with mock-Breck-ad delight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Bonnie loves Forky, but Forky sees himself as trash, not a toy, and tosses himself into the garbage at every opportunity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

Displaying as always her couture hauteur, Miranda, who doesn’t even remember Andy from her long-ago gig, tosses the former assistant in a terrible office and tells her she will inevitably fail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Brandon tosses me a marker, which I don't catch because I'm uncoordinated as well as unprepared.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

But remember that before Oppenheimer tossed us into the nuclear age, he pioneered modern theoretical physics in the United States.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Staging da capo arias is always a challenge, and Ms. Griffin often fell into the trap of extremes—Mr. Brownlee and Mr. Costanzo tossed chairs around, leaped acrobatically onto furniture and ripped things up—or stasis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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

Three men removed the deceased from a body bag, which they tossed aside, before returning the corpse to the coffin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

A car is tossed like a tub toy by a wave that inundated the North side of the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

I, like a Jewell, tost by sea to land, Am bought by him, who weares me on his hand.

From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury

In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'erspread, And beats the collier and the barber—red: Black, red, and white in various clouds are tost, And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett

The grave Bavarian, midst his half year’s frost, Delights to keep thy ruby fins awake; And as in traffic’s maze his fancy’s tost, Light skims the icy surface of the lake.

From Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion by Henry James Meller

All day long through Frederick street Sounded the tread of marching feet; All day long that free flag tost Over the heads of the rebel host.

From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker

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

We spent many weekends sorting through all the photo albums and loose photos we’d amassed or inherited, tossing the duplicate pictures and trashing my dad’s slides that were impossible to view easily.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

In the end, it was Maye who made it happen, tossing a late touchdown with a brilliant one-handed catch by unheralded receiver Efton Chism III.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

"I was sort of standing up a lot and tossing books across the room and being really active. I was like, 'Wow, yeah, I didn't know I had it in me'."

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

“Here’s a pillow and the comforter,” Door said, tossing them at Coal.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste




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