1
as in dismissed
to drive or force out
we summarily ejected the unwanted guest from our party
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2
as in expelled
to violently throw out or off (something from within)
the malfunctioning VCR abruptly stopped rewinding and ejected the tape
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Recent Examples of ejected
The driver was ejected, and the car came to rest against the front porch of a residence on the northeast corner of the intersection.
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Sofia Saric
may 27, Miami Herald, 27 May 2026
DeMar DeRozan, the Raptors’ leading scorer, widely respected across the league, was ejected for a flagrant foul on Cleveland’s Jordan Clarkson (another common link between then and now).
—Eric Koreen, New York Times, 27 May 2026
The passenger in the Land Rover was killed after being ejected.
—Ted Scouten, CBS News, 27 May 2026
They were ejected into all manner of orbits, there to remain for decades before ultimately succumbing to the slow pull of Earth’s gravity at higher altitudes.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 26 May 2026
After a review, Gasparino was ejected and will miss UCLA’s NCAA regional opener.
—Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026
All four crew members ejected safely, with three uninjured and one treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a Boise-area hospital.
—Idaho Statesman, 20 May 2026
Kim Sykes, marketing director with Silver Wings of Idaho, which helped to plan the air show celebrating America’s 250th birthday, told the Associated Press all four of the crew members, including the pilots, from the jets ejected safely and deployed their parachutes to reach the ground.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026
Security came down to address Whalen, but he wasn’t ejected from the game.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 13 Apr. 2025
Sofia Saric
may 27, Miami Herald, 27 May 2026
DeMar DeRozan, the Raptors’ leading scorer, widely respected across the league, was ejected for a flagrant foul on Cleveland’s Jordan Clarkson (another common link between then and now).
—Eric Koreen, New York Times, 27 May 2026
The passenger in the Land Rover was killed after being ejected.
—Ted Scouten, CBS News, 27 May 2026
They were ejected into all manner of orbits, there to remain for decades before ultimately succumbing to the slow pull of Earth’s gravity at higher altitudes.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 26 May 2026
After a review, Gasparino was ejected and will miss UCLA’s NCAA regional opener.
—Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026
All four crew members ejected safely, with three uninjured and one treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a Boise-area hospital.
—Idaho Statesman, 20 May 2026
Kim Sykes, marketing director with Silver Wings of Idaho, which helped to plan the air show celebrating America’s 250th birthday, told the Associated Press all four of the crew members, including the pilots, from the jets ejected safely and deployed their parachutes to reach the ground.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026
Security came down to address Whalen, but he wasn’t ejected from the game.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 13 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ejected
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The arrest happened after students were dismissed for early release, according to a Plainfield School District Facebook post.—
Allison Kiehl,
Chicago Tribune,
24 May 2026
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Among those inside the building was Ozgur Ozel, elected as party chairperson in November 2023 but dismissed by the court ruling.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
24 May 2026
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Students also pointed out to the Republic that their class syllabi had strict rules about the use of AI in academic work; Reiner said students can be punished or expelled for it.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
23 May 2026
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Middlesbrough had been beaten in the semi-finals by Southampton, but Tonda Eckert’s side were expelled from the play-offs after being found guilty by the English Football League (EFL) of spying on their opponents’ training sessions — and those of other Championship clubs this season, too.—
Tom Burrows,
New York Times,
23 May 2026
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The result was that teams chased symptoms instead of causes, and the costs showed up as recalls, downtime or customer frustration.—
Yu Fang,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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Uses living prisms For two decades, Professor Masakazu Iwasaka of Hiroshima University has chased the secrets of fish scales.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
26 May 2026
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A lot has changed since that day — the Iran war erupted and widened before a tenuous ceasefire was reached.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
23 May 2026
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Two EMTs were responding to a call about an elderly patient when gunfire erupted and an 18-year-old was shot in the stomach nearby.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
22 May 2026
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Since whistleblowers outed OpenAI’s mistake, cops have gotten access to the shooter’s logs, but families and their legal team have not, Edelson confirmed.—
Robert Pearlman,
ArsTechnica,
29 Apr. 2026
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Some of these pictures show him at an event in Birmingham with Black Box theater colleagues and attended by officials of UK actors union Equity just a few weeks before he was outed by Norwood’s anonymous tipper.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
16 Apr. 2026
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The European Space Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile has four giant Unit Telescopes (UTs), which emitted lasers pointed to the center of the Milky Way galaxy.—
Chelsea Gohd,
Space.com,
27 May 2026
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These included the amount of light emitted by different areas, as well as how fast the material in those areas was moving relative to the Earth, as determined by the red- and blue-shifting of hydrogen emissions.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 May 2026
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The nervous tension that had enveloped the Emirates was banished, replaced by a carnival atmosphere.—
Ayo Akinwolere,
New York Times,
10 May 2026
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He was stripped of all his honors and titles and banished from public view by the royal family after years of scandal over his money woes and links to questionable characters, including Epstein.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2026
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Technically, that wasn’t the very last image — the wormhole sucked up the whole theater, spit out a snow globe, and Benny, Colbert’s pet dog, sniffed the souvenir before being ushered onward by his owner — but when the lights went out on Broadway, that was that.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
22 May 2026
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Between archival footage and photos of Lennon and Ono, there are dozens of jarring, ugly visuals, seemingly generated by entering Ono and Lennon’s dialogue into a machine that spits out bizarrely literal interpretations of text.—
Rachel Handler,
Vulture,
22 May 2026
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“Ejected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ejected. Accessed 29 May. 2026.
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