jettisons
- present tense form of jettison (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The new approach jettisons everything we’ve learned over 60 years: that international development is successful when lasting partnerships are built upon a foundation of goodwill.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026
Although they live within their means, Man-su’s termination jettisons the You family from their tax bracket and thrusts its patriarch down a rabbit hole of shame and emasculation.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025
The January closure of the downtown store jettisons a location that by itself had lost around $2 million in 2022 due largely to the absence of office workers since the pandemic.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024
The book written by David Thompson with Sharon Washington maintains the film’s immediate post-World War II jubilance but jettisons much of the plot that was specific to De Niro and Minnelli.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
The starfish is often in the dilemma of losing a limb or its life; by a reflex action it jettisons the captured arm and escapes.
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur
