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

As Diwan jettisons the latter two components of “Happening,” the narrative loses some of what makes Ernaux’s work sui generis, but in so doing it takes on new universality.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2022

This slimmed-down package jettisons some of the more controversial elements of the earlier plan.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2021

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