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Let’s toss the belief that it takes an outsider to change a company into the corner office trash can.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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

The pattern of this day was entirely predictable from the moment Root won the toss and there were times in the early going when the action was neither elite sport nor satisfying entertainment.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

To try to avoid bringing it home with her after work, she’d toss all her clothes immediately into the dryer so the heat could kill any eggs that may have hitchhiked on her.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

Every now and then I toss him up an Oatie Puff and he eats it in midair.

From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins

Over a woozy, wavy groove that sounds like a water-damaged recording of a jazz-fusion ballad as it stretches past seven minutes, she tosses out observations about African-American history and the state of the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

Tom and Evan greet a new day by looking out at the bay, and the mayor tosses that telltale brooch into the water.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

Legend grabs the bag and tosses it to me.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

Hernández tossed his bat back toward the home dugout, and it sliced through the air end-over-end.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 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

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

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

Sensing that he might be storing up trouble for himself, he tossed half the carcass to the cub.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

Light human nature is too lightly tost And ruffled without cause; complaining on— Restless with rest—until, being overthrown, It learneth to lie quiet.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various

And I looked on 'mid the watery strife, When the world was deluged and all was lost Save one blessed vessel, preserver of life, Which rode on through safety, though tempest tost.

From Moon Lore by Timothy Harley

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

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

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

If you ever need to evacuate in a pinch, Sauceda recommends tossing your go bag into your dirty laundry basket, as it likely contains a mix of season-appropriate clothes that fit, and carrying both out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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

Alas, “The Whisper Man” is merely a collection of defanged genre tropes and equally familiar character writing, tossing paltry scraps to its supporting cast in Michelle Monaghan and Michael Keaton.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

For the rest of that night Karli lay there tossing and turning, sometimes delirious, and all three of us took turns to try to cool him.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo