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jettison

[jet-uh-suhn, -zuhn] / ˈdʒɛt ə sən, -zən /


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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

For one day a week, employees could jettison their suits and pantyhose and heels and wear… no one was quite sure at first, although Levi’s Dockers played a big role, at least for men.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 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

The decision to jettison the report’s traditional explanatory narrative was announced to EIA staff in a March 10 internal email, after the document was largely complete following months of work.

From Salon May 6, 2025

In Ayemenem they danced to jettison their humiliation in the Heart of Darkness.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

The book written by David Thompson with Sharon Washington maintains the film’s immediate post-World War II jubilance but jettisons much of the plot that was specific to De Niro and Minnelli.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 26, 2023

It jettisons redemption by excluding from the Redeemer all kinship with that which He came to redeem.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by A. A. (Arthur Aston) Luce

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

As Wyatt-Hodge took the crowd's acclaim and left the field, it was the jettisoned Dunkley who met her first by the boundary edge.

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

It could learn from India, which jettisoned antipathy toward Israel in the early 1990s, at around the same time that it embraced a more market-based economic outlook.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 22, 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

It is a victory for the U.S. military, which went from blueprint to battle-ready drone in less than two years, jettisoning its tradition of slowly buying very expensive equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 1, 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

It’s hard to imagine that Les Snead and Sean McVay were not in lockstep over jettisoning Ernest Jones and getting next to nothing in return.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 21, 2024

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

Basketball players did passing drills on deck, but the wind kept jettisoning the balls into the Atlantic.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand




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