Busy and Thrown

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Busy adjective - Involved in often constant activity.

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Thrown and busy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Thrown" instead an adjective "Busy".

Nearby Words: busily, busyness, busied, busying

Thrown adjective - Caused to fall to the ground.

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Busy and thrown are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Busy" instead an adjective "Thrown".

Nearby Words: throw, throwing

To elaborate, she refuses to look after the baby because she is busy, which is a lie, and the girls notice that she has thrown all the apples her students gave her into the trash.

Source: Child Hater
Kinda Busy Here: In Volume 3, Kotoha calls Akina while he and Kyousuke are busy trying to survive getting cars thrown at them by Shinozuka.

Source: Manga / Yozakura Quartet
The Alcoholic: In one adaptation (the one narrated by Sting), the duck nearly misses her cue because she's too busy drinking at the bar, and she is literally thrown onto the set by the production crew.

Source: Music / Peter and the Wolf

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