It was her mother who would have been the helpful one, taking over the kitchen, singing songs to Akash and teaching him Bengali nursery rhymes, throwing loads of laundry into the machine.

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This occurrence would be similar to throwing a rock into a running washing machine -- clearly not a good idea.

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If they are caught in the middle of an attack, the pirates have no hesitation throwing their weapons typically AK47 machine guns and rocket-propelled-grenade launchers and their scaling ladders overboard to destroy evidence of their intentions.

ECONOMIST: Piracy

Users are throwing sand in Intel's money-making machine with their growing reluctance to pay a premium for PCs with powerful new chips.

ECONOMIST: Intel

Throwing caution to the wind, I became a whirlwind killing machine, blowing through each room with deadly force.

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If that's not enough, Google's ahead of you, and is throwing in 1TB of Drive storage with every Pixel for three years -- what it expects the life of the machine to be.

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