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eject

[ih-jekt] / ɪˈdʒɛkt /


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“Instead of showing up, checking a box to work out, then eject, I think that sacrifice from friends, family, it’s important,” manager Dave Roberts said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

One especially energetic kind of Pop III supernova, called a pair-instability supernova, can eject more than 100 times the Sun's mass in heavy elements during a single explosion.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

GMB convener Chris Mitchell made the appeal after a bin lorry crew was forced to eject rubbish that had caught fire onto the street in Glasgow city centre.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

If Powers had to eject while in flight, his instructions were first to flip a switch marked ARM and a second switch marked DESTRUCT.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

The technique shines photons onto a material and ejects electrons from its surface, allowing researchers to map its electronic structure and magnetic states.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 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

Observations from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, showed that the moon occasionally ejects water from this ocean via a plume at its south pole.

From Scientific American ● May 18, 2023

The awesome supernova explosion ejects into space most of the matter of the precursor star—a little residual hydrogen and helium and significant amounts of other atoms, carbon and silicon, iron and uranium.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

They would place their little shard of pottery—the ostracon—inscribed with their villain’s name, on a table and the unfortunate candidate would be ejected if the votes added up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

One in 2011 involved an Iraq War veteran who was ejected from a ride in New York and hit his head on the car.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

In 2015, she ejected her father from the party over his repeated characterization of Nazi gas chambers as a “detail of history.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The punishment could range from a huge fine, being deducted points or ejected from the Premier League, to being stripped of the eight trophies they had won in the affected period.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

He believes the quasars are not at cosmological distances but instead are being ejected, left and right, by the “foreground” galaxy; and that the red shifts are the result of some as-yet-unfathomed mechanism.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

Direct food distribution programmes were dismantled and legislation was introduced to place the financial onus for famine relief on Irish landowners, who in turn attempted to save money by ejecting tenants.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

One crew member from the F-15 was rescued shortly after ejecting, but the second remained missing for days, prompting an urgent and highly coordinated recovery effort.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 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

By the time he was twenty-three, and he got himself to an oral surgeon, they had rotated sideways inside his gums and were ejecting themselves through the tissue under his nose.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover


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