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eject

[ih-jekt] / ɪˈdʒɛkt /


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A US F-35 fighter jet crashed Friday near a military base in San Diego, but the pilot was able to eject before impact, officials said.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

The side effects from a big increase in air conditioning are considered to be large: The devices are costly; they are energy hungry; and they eject hot air into the street, warming cities even more.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

Working alongside University of Michigan astronomy professor Jon Miller, Xiang previously showed that winds from NGC 4151's accretion disk can reach speeds high enough to eject material from the system.

From Science Daily Jun. 19, 2026

"Eighty-six" is a slang term used to mean "eject" or "remove."

From BBC Apr. 28, 2026

Mulch would have been indignant had he not been busy chewing clay to eject at his enemy.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

"Our catalyst works a bit differently because it actually just ejects the electron directly into solvent," says Zachary Wickens, a professor in the UW-Madison Department of Chemistry who led the work.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

Spivey's .45 caliber, like most firearms, ejects casingsbehind and to the right.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 21, 2025

The search may have been hampered by the plane's anti-radar stealth capabilities and technology that wipes the jet's communications system if a pilot ejects.

From BBC Sep. 22, 2023

Researchers are still trying to understand how the collision ejects material, what the material is made of and how the resulting kilonova unfolds.

From Scientific American Jan. 9, 2023

He stops fights, ejects drunks, soothes hysteria, cures headaches, and tends bar.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

"But that doesn't necessarily mean that Deimos is actually an asteroid. It could also have formed from material ejected during impacts on Mars."

From Science Daily Aug. 26, 2026

“They were ejected from it, thrown clear down the road.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

After officials reviewed the footage, Ms. Carrington was called for a flagrant foul and ejected from the game.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

The foul was upgraded to a flagrant two foul after review and Carrington was automatically ejected from the match after scoring eight points in four minutes from the bench.

From BBC Aug. 9, 2026

A black streak ejected from the hole in the wall above their heads, dropping directly onto the Time Suck’s back.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

At La Albufera National Park, a protected coastal wetland covering 21,000 hectares south of Valencia, officials have spent the past week turning away or ejecting unauthorized onlookers attempting to enter restricted areas.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

The Bruins leader said he thought Steven Jamerson II tried to take out an opponent, but the coach said he had a poor view and apologized for ejecting the player.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 21, 2026

He acknowledged that Ukrainian forces were experiencing “incredibly difficult conditions” in Kursk, but said Russia was devoting vast resources to ejecting them - resources which it would prefer to be using elsewhere.

From BBC Dec. 2, 2024

He travelled eighteen miles but only after ejecting every loose object from the balloon to enable it to launch.

From Salon Nov. 3, 2024

The core collapses in on itself, ejecting the outer layers in a display of light and energy greater than that which the sun will produce over its entire lifetime.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson




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