throwdowns

"throwdowns" have been deemphasized over the past 10 to 15 years.

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"They were like incredible throwdowns," says Bobby Flay, the celebrity chef who also buys and breeds racehorses.

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The East was more spectacular with the Cleveland Cavaliers 'LeBron James and Wade taking turns feeding one another for highlight-reel slam-dunks and the Orlando Magic's Dwight Howard with his rim-shaking, one-handed throwdowns.

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The sight of Suresh Raina sending down his long-hops to a grateful Broad invited Warne to deride them as "throwdowns".

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The duo's major-label debut, Want, which is marked by Sean Foreman's tongue-in-cheek throwdowns over Nathaniel Motte's fizzy synthesizer pulses, has sold more than 250,000 copies since its release last July.

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Colly out doing throwdowns for KP, like the true team man he is.

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A few hundred people have been coming out for these house-and-electro throwdowns, but since two of the DJs are GW students, this is going to be the last event until the fall.

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With that Randall returned to his throwdowns in the squash court for a couple of under-11s from Bedford's prep school.

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But all these throwdowns and showdowns left fewer slots for, well, cooking.

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And while some of us are old enough to remember that once upon a time these arguments always had at least some sort of ideological flavor to them, i.e. the throwdowns were at least rooted in some sort of real political issue (war, taxes, immigration, etc.) we've now got a whole generation that is accustomed to screaming at cultural enemies as an end in itself, for the sheer dismal fun of it.

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