jettison
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Markets aren’t cynical enough to jettison their bets on tech, however, and continue to ride the sector’s extraordinary gains into the start of the new month.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
The swift text-email combination marked yet another evolution in the often-changing tactics employers deploy to jettison workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
High-profile announcements from companies over the past few years promising to jettison the bachelor’s degree as a hiring requirement largely haven’t resulted in action.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2025
In public, Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim tried to counter the view that he wanted to jettison Rashford.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025
Haynes was waxing rhetorical—the critics don’t want to jettison everything from the past.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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The new approach jettisons everything we’ve learned over 60 years: that international development is successful when lasting partnerships are built upon a foundation of goodwill.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026
Although they live within their means, Man-su’s termination jettisons the You family from their tax bracket and thrusts its patriarch down a rabbit hole of shame and emasculation.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025
The January closure of the downtown store jettisons a location that by itself had lost around $2 million in 2022 due largely to the absence of office workers since the pandemic.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024
He does not dispense two-dollar words; he keeps digressions tidy and to a minimum; he jettisons weight, on occasion, for speed.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
The starfish is often in the dilemma of losing a limb or its life; by a reflex action it jettisons the captured arm and escapes.
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson
These experiences came to mind while hearing Danny take on a yet-to-be-previously attempted vampire voice as he dodged dirty looks and jettisoned drinkware.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
“External tanks were only used once. ... We jettisoned them on the way to orbit, and it burned up in the atmosphere before it hit Earth,” Jenkins said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Nike has dumped its longtime China leadership, jettisoned other top employees and acknowledged “structural” challenges in the country, which is now the worst-performing part of its global operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
Luis Enrique, who also won the Champions League with Barcelona in 2015, ordered his players to park egos at the door - or jettisoned those who would not.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
When I lowered my arm, I screamed, thinking the sluggers had jettisoned me into space.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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Plenty of investors these days are jettisoning anything that seems risky from their portfolios, but things that look like junk may not be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
What we found could help calm some nerves, and might even stop investors from making the mistake of jettisoning the big winners too early.
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
There were high-profile stumbles, including jettisoning staff of the tiny Turner Classic Movies channel and an ill-conceived rebrand of its streamer to “Max” before changing the name back to HBO Max.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
When the trees shed their puzzle-piece bark, it’s like they’re exfoliating: They deposit pollutants into the soil, preventing them from entering local waterways or our lungs, while jettisoning damaged bark.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024
Suddenly the thing exploded, jettisoning an amazing amount of tunnel waste directly at the unfortunate manservant.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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