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throw in

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verb

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Noun
Then, enter Bellingham: after a throw-in into the box was headed on by Marc Guéhi, the Real Madrid midfielder – tipped to be one of the standout players of this tournament – showed his star quality with a wonderful bicycle kick. George Ramsay, CNN, 30 June 2024 Assistant coach Gianni Vio is a specialist in set pieces — soccer parlance primarily encompassing free kicks and corner kicks but also throw-ins and goal kicks. Steven Goff, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
Verb
That had to have been thrown in as an inside joke, because as most non-newbies in this setting would know … setlist, schmetlist. Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Oct. 2024 These are provided by public schools to students from lower-income families, but at private schools, parents typically have to pay for them. And throw in a supply of uniforms with the private school’s logo — hundreds of dollars more. Eli Hager, ProPublica, 12 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for throw-in 

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“Throw-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/throw-in. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.

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