eject
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The six-page document discussed issues including the F-5’s flight controls, what could happen if pilots had to eject, and previous crashes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
To “86” someone is to eject or ban someone, especially from a bar or restaurant.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
An incident last week that saw a US warplane shot down and its two crew eject over Iran before being rescued by American special forces has also highlighted the foes' competing narratives.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
These massive stars spin rapidly and regularly eject material into space.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2026
During descent, for example, if the Gemini’s parachute did not come out when scheduled, the astronauts really had to hurry to try other ways to get the chute out or, failing that, to eject themselves.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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Saturn's surroundings are of growing interest because of Enceladus, a moon that ejects icy plumes from a subsurface ocean and may potentially support life.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 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
The sun has 11-year-long sunspot cycles, during which the level of ferocity in its magnetic fields grows and the sun ejects increasingly larger pieces of its atmosphere.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
He stops fights, ejects drunks, soothes hysteria, cures headaches, and tends bar.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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Arriving Burbank police officers found “a male and female who had been ejected from the motorcycle,” authorities said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
One graduate student was ejected from this week’s meeting.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
"In this model, blobs of matter are chaotically being ejected from the surface of the bloated stars in an asymmetric fashion," Fuller says.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
Excitement for the global soccer spectacle has progressively waned as countries with large diasporas in the city -- like Mexico and Egypt -- have been ejected.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 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
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Xi’s motives for ejecting Zhang may never be definitively known.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
But when he didn’t, third base umpire Tripp Gibson did the honors of ejecting him from the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
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
“I thought I really had it,” I say, staring at this machine ejecting an amazing yellow card, like a credit card, all for me.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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