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
Ezeiruaku was ejected from the game.
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Briana Aldridge, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2026
The impact caused him to be ejected and land down an embankment.
—Harry Harris, Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2026
Lucas was ejected in the fourth quarter against Ole Miss and is slated to miss the first half of the national championship game as a result.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 12 Jan. 2026
Jones was ejected from the bike and came to rest north of the intersection, east of the roadway shoulder.
—Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
Referee Scott Foster ejected coach Jason Kidd in the first quarter for his apparent potty mouth.
—Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2026
The driver was found 20 feet from the vehicle after being ejected.
—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 11 Jan. 2026
Georgia's biggest issue came in the first half when 6-11 center Somto Cyril was ejected for throwing a forearm into Florida's Rueben Chinyelu.
—Arkansas Online, 7 Jan. 2026
The rider, a 30-year-old man from Chula Vista, was ejected and died at the scene.
—Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
Briana Aldridge, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2026
The impact caused him to be ejected and land down an embankment.
—Harry Harris, Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2026
Lucas was ejected in the fourth quarter against Ole Miss and is slated to miss the first half of the national championship game as a result.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 12 Jan. 2026
Jones was ejected from the bike and came to rest north of the intersection, east of the roadway shoulder.
—Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
Referee Scott Foster ejected coach Jason Kidd in the first quarter for his apparent potty mouth.
—Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2026
The driver was found 20 feet from the vehicle after being ejected.
—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 11 Jan. 2026
Georgia's biggest issue came in the first half when 6-11 center Somto Cyril was ejected for throwing a forearm into Florida's Rueben Chinyelu.
—Arkansas Online, 7 Jan. 2026
The rider, a 30-year-old man from Chula Vista, was ejected and died at the scene.
—Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ejected
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Sprowls sued, and an appellate court dismissed the lawsuit, siding with the county party, Davis said.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Jan. 2026
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In November, a federal judge dismissed the charges against both Comey and James, finding that Halligan had been unlawfully appointed.—
Sarah N. Lynch,
CBS News,
12 Jan. 2026
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Academics, journalists, students, have been fired or expelled, or, in some cases locked up for expressing their speech.—
Jenelle Riley,
Variety,
6 Jan. 2026
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The Vatican then expelled ten other members.—
Paul Elie,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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The pursuit ended in Chula Vista when the vehicle being chased crashed into another vehicle.—
Alexandra Mendoza,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Jan. 2026
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No, not the space being chased, with the top six teams in each conference advancing directly to the playoffs and the next four to the play-in round.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Protests have erupted in American cities since.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
11 Jan. 2026
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Shocking allegations have erupted from the Moore administration’s Department of Human Services surrounding an alleged scheme to intentionally maintain a high error rate in SNAP payments.—
Torrey Snow,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Jan. 2026
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Dunbar cited research on social networks that suggests people in interconnected friend groups are more likely to be generous to one another, possibly out of fear of being outed as miserly to an entire group.—
Jenny Singer,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
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Jenkins recalled how Bledsoe outed a civic group that shut kids’ lemonade stands near a golf tournament the group sponsored.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
1 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The spectrum of radiation emitted from the little red dots suggested that before the JWST detected these rays of light, they got scattered off electrons in dense clouds of ionized gas in the centers of the little red dots.—
Charles Q. Choi,
Space.com,
14 Jan. 2026
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To put its change in brightness into perspective, the brightest observed x-ray flare from Sagittarius A* happened in 2013, but that event had only 1 percent of the brightness of what the black hole may have emitted perhaps as recently as a few hundred years ago, Michail says.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
13 Jan. 2026
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Vladimir Lenin in Russia, Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Iran all spent more than 15 years in exile before returning to lead revolutions that toppled the regimes that had banished them.—
Karim Sadjadpour,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2026
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One of the most painful parts of this show remains seeing people who are so good at being on television banished from our screens.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2026
Verb
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On its fringes, volcanic islands gurgle and spit, their fertile slopes ablaze with wildflowers, capers, and Malvasia grapes.—
Rosalyn Wikeley,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Jan. 2026
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Picked him up when the system spit him out.—
Kevin Sherrington,
Dallas Morning News,
8 Jan. 2026
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“Ejected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ejected. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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