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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. Eric Hovland:

    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.

  2. Peter Hotez:

    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?

  3. 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.

  4. 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?

  5. 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.

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