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 six-page document discussed issues including the F-5’s flight controls, what could happen if pilots had to eject, and previous crashes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Working alongside University of Michigan astronomy professor Jon Miller, Xiang previously showed that winds from NGC 4151's accretion disk can reach speeds high enough to eject material from the system.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
To “86” someone is to eject or ban someone, especially from a bar or restaurant.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
“If they did, they’d have to eject half of the student body. Lots of kids there are just like me.”
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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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
He stops fights, ejects drunks, soothes hysteria, cures headaches, and tends bar.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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After officials reviewed the footage, Ms. Carrington was called for a flagrant foul and ejected from the game.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The foul was upgraded to a flagrant two foul after review and Carrington was automatically ejected from the match after scoring eight points in four minutes from the bench.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
"The pilot was ejected and has been recovered."
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Arriving Burbank police officers found “a male and female who had been ejected from the motorcycle,” authorities said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Writers and intellectuals, such as the world-famous novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose books depicted life in Soviet prison camps or gulags, were lucky by comparison—he merely found himself permanently ejected from his homeland in 1974.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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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
He acknowledged that Ukrainian forces were experiencing “incredibly difficult conditions” in Kursk, but said Russia was devoting vast resources to ejecting them - resources which it would prefer to be using elsewhere.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2024
He travelled eighteen miles but only after ejecting every loose object from the balloon to enable it to launch.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2024
Then suddenly, explosively, he coughed, ejecting the wad of grass.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
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