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toss·ing
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Wiktionary
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.
tossingadjective
Used to disparage or curse someone or something.
I can't get this tossing program to work.
Webster Dictionary
Tossing
of Toss
Tossingnoun
the act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling
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
Tossingnoun
a process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of tossing in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of tossing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of tossing in a Sentence
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid:
As we speak, Donald Trump is proposing to ban Muslim immigration. Other leading candidates are proposing a religious test, tossing around slurs on a daily basis, and now a Republican-appointed justice endorsing racist ideas from the Supreme Court bench. The only difference between the ideas endorsed by Trump and Scalia is that Scalia has a robe and a lifetime appointment. Ideas like this don't belong on the Internet, let alone the mouths of national figures.
Tossing aside the short-term nature of fluctuations around the inventory data, it's impossible to escape the economic reality that we are in the midst of a global manufacturing downturn.
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.
It’s flipping and tossing around, it looks like it’s even been roped by the tail. I mean this just wasn’t hooked on a line and accidentally dragged. This was purposeful and tragic.
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?
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