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
"Eighty-six" is a slang term used to mean "eject" or "remove."
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 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
As it does, it ejects any leftover fuel, which freezes instantly due to the altitude in a spiral pattern caused by the rocket's movement.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025
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
He stops fights, ejects drunks, soothes hysteria, cures headaches, and tends bar.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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"But that doesn't necessarily mean that Deimos is actually an asteroid. It could also have formed from material ejected during impacts on Mars."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
In contrast, Southern Section officials ejected 19 individuals from games last week, according to a Southern Section spokesman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
This is what happened in 2018, when a father and daughter were filmed being ejected from a Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago to Atlanta.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
"The pilot was ejected and has been recovered."
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Alternatively, they may be the steady state equilibrium between material ejected from a moon of Saturn, such as Titan, and material falling into the atmosphere of the planet.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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
The rescue operation included an A-10 Warthog plane that was hit over the Gulf, with its pilot ejecting before being rescued, according to CBS.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
The Bruins leader said he thought Steven Jamerson II tried to take out an opponent, but the coach said he had a poor view and apologized for ejecting the player.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026
He travelled eighteen miles but only after ejecting every loose object from the balloon to enable it to launch.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2024
When it finally came—three giant pink bubbles bursting at the surface off the starboard bow and ejecting Frank, Hazel, and Leo—Piper went a little crazy.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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