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thrown

adjective as in hurled

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"They've thrown our business into unbelievable disruption," he said, noting the company has had to shift the manufacturing of hundreds of items since January.

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The first term is a smear, the second an ill-defined shock-term frequently thrown around by writers on the political left.

Germany in recent months has seen several knife attacks, as well as attacks with jihadist and far-right motives that have thrown a focus on security measures.

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It didn’t matter that he had just thrown 96 pitches in Game 6 just to get them to that point.

It’s about how much mud can be thrown to drag the front-runner down.

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

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