as in ejecting
to violently throw out or off (something from within)
the volcano disgorged lava in a spectacular nighttime show
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The other imaged nova, V1405 Cassiopeiae, seemed to unfold in spectacular slow motion, taking more than fifty days before finally ejecting all of its exploded material.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
21 Jan. 2026 -
Protostars are messy and dynamic, gulping down material in spurts and fits and ejecting powerful outflows of wind and jets that punch into the surrounding clouds.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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Wheatley made her offer before he’d even succeeded in expelling the British from Boston.—
Jake Lundberg,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
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In August, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused Iran of directing at least two antisemitic attacks in Australia, expelling the Iranian ambassador to Canberra in response.—
Jackie Zhou,
NBC news,
16 Dec. 2025
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The stadium of his archrival, once silent, was erupting.—
Matt Schneidman,
New York Times,
11 Jan. 2026
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By happenstance, the high risk report was released just as a scandal was erupting in Minnesota over widespread fraud in a program meant to keep children fed during the pandemic.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
9 Jan. 2026
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According to the North Miami Police Department, 27-year-old Macksouel Desir was standing outside the residence on NW 7th Avenue early Christmas morning and was spitting on the floor when the victim approached him and told him to stop.—
Steven Yablonski,
CBS News,
29 Dec. 2025
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Chalamet and EsDeeKid linked up for a visual, which finds the duo heading from the kitchen to under the stars of a Rolls-Royce Wraith’s backseat, spitting rhymes.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
19 Dec. 2025
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On Tuesday afternoon, CBS13 found city crews hard at work there, covering wires with tarp and pouring concrete to at least a dozen streetlights.—
Tori Apodaca,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
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The senior captain outscored Burlington in the second quarter, pouring in nine of his game-high 28 points.—
Justin Barrasso,
Boston Herald,
21 Jan. 2026
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With a clogged toilet belching up a bunch of poop all over Miranda's apartment.—
EW Staff December 5,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Dec. 2025
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The cause of the Little Ice Age is unclear, but volcanic activity belching volcanic ash high into the atmosphere and blocking sunlight is one of the most likely explanations.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Today, a Luddite is your grandparent who keeps looking at the screen rather than the camera when on Zoom, the Boomer who types in all-capital letters, the grouchy man who refuses to get a smart phone, the professor spewing invective against Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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According to a study published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, J1007+3540 is erupting like a volcano and spewing plasma across interstellar space.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
15 Jan. 2026
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To put it simply, LED treatment works by emitting infrared light pulses that penetrate beyond the superficial layer of the skin.—
Tamim Alnuweiri,
InStyle,
20 Jan. 2026
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And the new MXene film was not only more flexible than ITO, but also increased brightness by almost an order of magnitude by making the contact between the topmost light-emitting organic layer and the film more efficient.—
Perri Thaler,
IEEE Spectrum,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Disgorging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disgorging. Accessed 25 Jan. 2026.
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