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Wiktionary

  1. tossingnoun

    The motion of something that tosses.

    Starbuck himself was seen coolly and adroitly balancing himself to the jerking tossings of his chip of a craft. uE000222927uE001 Herman Melville.

  2. tossingadjective

    Used to disparage or curse someone or something.

    I can't get this tossing program to work.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tossing

    of Toss

  2. Tossingnoun

    the act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling

  3. Tossingnoun

    a process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall

  4. Tossingnoun

    a process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Tossing in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Tossing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Tossing in a Sentence

  1. David Bernstein:

    I think the professor erred by retroactively tossing out the exam question because of these complaints, law school exams are timed. Some students might have spent more time on this question than on other questions, some mighthave done the opposite. Tossing out the question is grossly unfair to the former students.

  2. David Bernstein:

    Law school exams are timed. Some students might have spent more time on this question than on other questions, some mighthave done the opposite. Tossing out the question is grossly unfair to the former students.

  3. Peter Hotez:

    But that is the reality, and as long as that’s the reality and as long as Covid is still around, I think we should be advocating for it, the doses are there, and if we don’t use them soon, they’re going to have to be thrown out. So better to give them to people who are all in and willing to take it than just the tossing, right?

  4. Ron Perlman:

    I've been tossing and turning all night giving this a great deal of thought, and there is one way you can save the day here, and that is to tell the Taliban that you are going to escort every Afghan at once to leave the Taliban behind to the airport and put them on planes to safety.

  5. Timm Schimke:

    They looked like any other people who were cleaning out their garage or cleaning out a rental. It was just stuff, they weren't manipulating the stuff. They were just tossing it out, and they were only in there for two or three minutes and then they left.

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