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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

Much like the myth of automatically getting straight A’s if your college roommate dies, there is folklore around military pilots who eject from jets and live to tell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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

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

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

"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

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

Facing financial ruin, despite fans' best efforts, they have been ejected from Portugal's professional leagues.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 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

After a short review, Stephens was ejected for targeting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

The retaining clamps ejected from the launch gantry, falling to the ground.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

"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

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

The pilot of the twin-engine, single-seat attack jet was able to fly out of Iranian airspace before ejecting from the aircraft and being rescued, they said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 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 blast also created radioactive atoms—atoms with unstable nuclei that break apart, ejecting particles and rays as they decay.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin


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