eject
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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
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
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
To “86” someone is to eject or ban someone, especially from a bar or restaurant.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
She worried that Leo would turn the wrong combination on the sphere and accidentally eject them all from the deck, or blow up the ship, or turn the Argo II into a giant toaster.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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"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
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
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
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One graduate student was ejected from this week’s meeting.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 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 British military task force ejected Argentine forces, who had landed on the Falklands to stake a territorial claim.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
He received his second yellow card and was ejected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
He felt he had thoroughly tasted and ejected a portion of sorrow, a portion of misery during those past times, that he had consumed them up to a point of despair and death.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
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The rescue operation reportedly included an A-10 Warthog aircraft which was hit over the Gulf, with its pilot ejecting before being rescued.
From BBC ● Apr. 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
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
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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