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[ih-jekt] / ɪˈdʒɛkt /


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Parsa, the owner who had to eject petty criminals, wishes she’d recorded some of the early craziness; her TikToks today focus on cash collection and cleaning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 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

The pilot, the only person on board the aircraft, managed to eject from the jet before the crash, said Marine Corps spokesperson Capt. Jacob Sugg.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

They use electric fields to charge particles in a liquid propellant and then eject those particles into space, creating thrust.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026

Once I had had to eject from a burning airplane, and I knew that the procedures had to be memorized and be very clear in your mind.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

"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

Investigators believe he was ejected from his seat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Last month, Nike was ejected from the S&P 100 stock market index of the biggest blue-chip firms in the US.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 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

The video was about the sea creatures who live around sul fur chimneys, which are underwater volcanoes where gases are ejected from the earth’s crust into the water.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon

"As far as I'm aware this is the first known case of this variant, the T2, ejecting pilots out of it," he said, adding that the safety record for these jets is "obviously very good".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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

Xi’s motives for ejecting Zhang may never be definitively known.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026

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

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2024

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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