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  • verb Present participle of eject.

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Examples

  • I'm now trying to discern whether my wife has a right or left handed action ... she's ejecting from the bottom and seems to load from the front so it is hard to decide.

    Rifles of Interest, Vol. 1 2009

  • I'm now trying to discern whether my wife has a right or left handed action ... she's ejecting from the bottom and seems to load from the front so it is hard to decide.

    Rifles of Interest, Vol. 1 2009

  • Having said this, it is probably no worse than ejecting from a high speed jet.

    Ares Troubles Mount - NASA Watch 2009

  • (Of course, it's possible that the involvement of government officials in ejecting people from planes or keeping them off of planes might translate into state action.)

    IsThatLegal? 2003

  • MLB ruled that umpire Dan Iassogna made a mistake in ejecting

    USATODAY.com - National League West 2002

  • Referee Lu Jun showed no hesitation in ejecting Zivkovic and pointing to the penalty spot.

    USATODAY.com - Second-half foul dooms Croatia to loss 2002

  • On Monday, a senior Iraqi government official said a search in 1995 of the crash site in Iraq's western desert showed the pilot was killed without ejecting from the cockpit, though his remains were never found.

    Speicher, Michael S. 1991

  • After ejecting from a flaming plane which was shot down over North Vietnam,

    Perkins, Glendon W. 1990

  • I am very fortunate to be alive as neither Lt.Cdr. Hyatt, my pilot, nor I remember ejecting from the aircraft.

    Goodermote, Wayne K. 1977

  • One more point: Don’t you think Hezb’allah’s success in ejecting Israel from Lebanon in 2000 would give them an instruction on how violence can be successfully used?

    Matthew Yglesias » The Strategic Logic of Nonviolence 2009

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