thrown

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Those 1.3 million only include reported runaways, and do not account for children who are part of a homeless family, who were forced out of their homes or abandoned by their parents / guardians (known as a thrown-away episode), or who were simply not reported as runaways.

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  1. verb Past participle of throw.

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  • A third and fourth shell were thrown, the sail being again torn by the latter. —  The Three Commanders
  • There she lay, her weapons broken, herself like a sword thrown down on the ground, in the dark and bound, conscious of her bondage and in great grief, her might suddenly broken by fear Illustration: 73.--BEL FIGHTS THE DRAGON--TIAMAT (BABYLONIAN CYLINDER 17. —  Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
  • Hah Dale was heavily thrown, and Saxe could dimly see a short, squat figure upon his breast. —  The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps
  • For this purpose he had to enter the labyrinth into which the monster's booty was usually thrown, and to kill the Minotaur. —  Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English
  • His soul Surged up from that caldron of passion that hiss'd And seeth'd in his heart VII He had thrown, and had miss'd His last stake VIII For, transfigured, she rose from the place Where he rested o'erawed: a saint's scorn on her face Such a dread vade retro was written in light On her forehead, the fiend would himself, at that sight Have sunk back abash'd to perdition. —  Lucile
 

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