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eject

[ih-jekt] / ɪˈdʒɛkt /


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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

An incident last week that saw a US warplane shot down and its two crew eject over Iran before being rescued by American special forces has also highlighted the foes' competing narratives.

From Barron's Apr. 7, 2026

The two US military personnel on board the F-15E Strike Eagle managed to eject from the aircraft, and the pilot was rescued the same day, but the second crew member was missing.

From BBC Apr. 5, 2026

During descent, for example, if the Gemini’s parachute did not come out when scheduled, the astronauts really had to hurry to try other ways to get the chute out or, failing that, to eject themselves.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

"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

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

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

One graduate student was ejected from this week’s meeting.

From Slate Jul. 23, 2026

“Close. It’s the Ring Nebula. The ring is the ejected shell of a star’s outer mass.”

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

At La Albufera National Park, a protected coastal wetland covering 21,000 hectares south of Valencia, officials have spent the past week turning away or ejecting unauthorized onlookers attempting to enter restricted areas.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Direct food distribution programmes were dismantled and legislation was introduced to place the financial onus for famine relief on Irish landowners, who in turn attempted to save money by ejecting tenants.

From BBC Aug. 5, 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 travelled eighteen miles but only after ejecting every loose object from the balloon to enable it to launch.

From Salon Nov. 3, 2024

By the time he was twenty-three, and he got himself to an oral surgeon, they had rotated sideways inside his gums and were ejecting themselves through the tissue under his nose.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover




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