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toss

[taws, tos] / tɔs, tɒs /






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Major French retailers said on October 12 that hundreds of store refrigeration systems were hit by a cyberattack, which also forced them to toss food and raised concerns about food security.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

After a shocking start, a bad call at the toss compounded by a wayward bowling performance across the first two hours, Australia roared back into the Test in the afternoon.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

As England added 156 in the final 10 overs, Brook passed Stokes' record with a six whipped over the leg side off a full toss bowled by left-arm seamer Dilshan Madushanka.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

In 16 of those, the winner of the coin toss has chosen to kick.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

What if she’s only taking it up there to toss it over the edge or something?

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone

She apologizes for her English, though it is mostly impeccable, and occasionally tosses translation questions to a member of her team.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

However, with 55 runs required off the final 20 balls, Sutherland dispatched Georgia Elwiss for 23 runs, including sending two full tosses away for six, to drag Sunrisers back into the match.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 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

As if releasing a pro-stealing film in a very anti-theft corporate culture weren’t ballsy enough, radical filmmaker Boots Riley grabs everything from the kitchen sink and tosses it into the blender for “I Love Boosters.”

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

Bess tosses her bangs out of her eyes to smile at me, and the light ripples over her ebony mane.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

Butler said there seemed to be no warning before the man was tossed into nearby bushes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Ohtani turned to the Dodgers’ dugout, spread his arms wide and tossed his bat to the side.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

But New York’s highest court tossed the conviction, finding the judge improperly allowed accusers to testify who weren’t part of the charges in the case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

I tossed back the sheets, crawled to the window, and pushed aside the curtains.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

The keynote of the movement is struck in the strange word used by Wace, that occurs now for the first time in history: "Asez tost oï Richard dire Ke vilains cumune faseient."

From The Story of Rouen by Sir Theodore Andrea Cook

The sea is tost and the ship is lost, And deep is the sleep 'neath the Harbour-bar.

From The Coast of Bohemia by Thomas Nelson Page

Was ever knight for ladyes sake Soe tost in love, as I, Sir Guy, For Phelis fayre, that lady bright As ever man beheld with eye?

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

In this sea of dread and doubt My poore barke is tost about; With storms and pirats far and wide, Death and woes on every side.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw

Always, with due comparison, By him let all that 's done be done; Troops, levies, and ambassadors, Treaties and taxes, wars and stores; No blunders or crude schemes are tost, Each enterprise repays its cost.

From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by John Gay

The confrontation between the two lasts only a split second, because the man with the dogs steps back after tossing the canister, and the agent confronting him lets up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

My wife and children will have no trouble tossing all of my memories into a dumpster someday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 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

Instead of tossing the sticks in the nearest garbage, they kept them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

He kept coming back again and again, and every time Marlene would run at him across the garden, trumpeting, tossing her ears, flapping them, but that only infuriated the dog even more.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo


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