jettison
verb (used with object)
to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
have jettisoned
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present perfectof jettison.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The Washington Commanders have jettisoned the leering cruds who made up Snyder’s inner circle and replaced them with sober, empathetic professionals such as Jason Wright, and Snyder was fined $10 million.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2022
It is meant to indict us also, the governed, as a people who have jettisoned the humane values that that same society impressed on my upbringing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2021
Of late, women’s magazines have jettisoned stories about the extreme nil-by-mouth dieting and exercise measures undertaken by the models in the run-up to the show, in favour of articles about body positivity.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2019
And since the M’s have jettisoned most of the players for whom fans had developed an affinity, it might be nice to suit up someone that everyone would get a kick out of watching perform.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2019
This, if it had been carried out, would have jettisoned, and probably for ever, the Croats and Slovenes.
From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 by Henry Baerlein
