as in ejecting
to violently throw out or off (something from within)
he suddenly snapped and began eructing his repressed anger
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Investigators said the Jeep’s rear door was damaged and opened during the crash, ejecting a juvenile girl.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
10 Apr. 2026 -
The pilot of the A-10 was able to fly his crippled aircraft into Kuwaiti airspace before ejecting.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
9 Apr. 2026
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That impact and his trajectory launched his dragster up into the air, erupting in a fireball, breaking into pieces and getting badly tangled in the catch fencing.—
Jan Wagner,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Apr. 2026
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The first batch of storms erupting in the western part of the threat zone is the one most likely to spin up tornadoes and unleash the biggest hail, which could total vehicles, shatter windows and damage roofs.—
Briana Waxman,
CNN Money,
17 Apr. 2026
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When John begins spitting out his food, his mother, Heather (Shirley Henderson), worn down by exhaustion and anger, banishes him from the dinner table—the first in an unceasing series of maternal rejections.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
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There’s one climactic moment involving spitting when the staging undermines the action.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2026
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Their boneless design also enables unique movement — from crawling along the ocean floor to jetting through water by expelling it rapidly from their bodies.—
Samantha Agate,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2026
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No direct hits are required; shock waves from a jet can ripple across hundreds of thousands of light-years to churn galactic gas into stars or to extinguish star formation entirely by expelling those gas reservoirs into intergalactic space.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
16 Apr. 2026
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Energy-intensive industries like chemicals also have to pay for emitting carbon.—
Marilen Martin,
Bloomberg,
15 Apr. 2026
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The explosives were detonated in rapid succession, emitting loud bangs, followed by the booming noise of the building coming down.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
13 Apr. 2026
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Following the announcement of Prince’s death, tributes began pouring in for the musician.—
Alex Gurley,
PEOPLE,
21 Apr. 2026
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Rebecca Conant, director of programs for the Friends of Pullman National Historic Park, did the beer pouring for the audience and coordinated the event.—
Janice Neumann,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Apr. 2026
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In one video geolocated by NBC News, roiling orange flames and belching smoke could be seen rising from the Aghdasieh fuel depot in the city’s northern Tajrish district.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
9 Mar. 2026
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The $20 billion facility, run by Musk’s AI firm xAI, is powered by 27 methane gas turbines that run day and night, belching fumes and emitting a constant noise like jet engines, NBC News reports.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
4 Mar. 2026
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The families are also eager to take away Jones's platform for spewing such conspiracy theories.—
Tovia Smith,
NPR,
20 Apr. 2026
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Far from spewing indistinguishable babble, jackzebra and Bloodz Boi rap at the edge of meaning and expressivity, with lyrics that mine specific Chinese cultural references to express more universal feelings.—
James Gui,
Pitchfork,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Eructing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eructing. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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