jettisoning 1 of 2

present participle of jettison

jettisoning

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noun

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Recent Examples of jettisoning
Noun
Starting with next year's release, Apple will be able to start jettisoning all Intel code from macOS, including (eventually) the Rosetta translation technology that allows Apple Silicon Macs to run Intel code at all. ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025 Companies responded by jettisoning a few mean executives, changing their internal communications strategies, and retraining bosses to be nicer. Max Tani, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025 There was a group of men, all of them in fear of retribution from the Union, who were jettisoning for Mexico, to build a life that accorded with their beliefs and to seek great fortune while doing so. Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025 But in 2022, after hybrid work took hold, the company began jettisoning most of its Seattle-area offices outside of the Redmond headquarters. Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025 In fact, real-time imaging revealed eggs jettisoning lysosomes into the surrounding fluid, while their mitochondria and proteasomes simultaneously migrate to the outer rim of the cells. Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jettisoning
Verb
  • The reason for the debris is not that people are discarding the cookies but, rather, the way they’re sold.
    Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • These layers are then reorganized into tensor networks, which retain the most important patterns in the layer’s weights while discarding redundant information that isn’t contributing much to overall performance.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • With the original Toxic Avenger creator’s blessing, Macon Blair has brought the cult franchise back from its noxious cinematic dumping grounds.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Factories throughout the 19th and 20th centuries used the creek as a sewer and dumping ground.
    Scott Wartman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • With more and more people ditching larger sizes, the store has had to be reset multiple times.
    Kevin Williams, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Give and Take All the new iPhones use eSIM worldwide, ditching physical SIM cards for good.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • It’s still being investigated today, including with the distinctive odor of brewery discard.
    Greg Uyeno, JSTOR Daily, 27 Aug. 2025
  • One distiller's discard can be another company's treasure.
    Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 14 July 2025
Verb
  • Glabe’s sales follow those of board member Eric Swider, who has also sharply reduced his holdings, unloading around 165,000 shares since November.
    Zach Everson, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Dockworkers were unloading shipping containers from another vessel that was berthed at Pier G before the incident, with truck drivers moving containers to and from the terminal.
    Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Despite spending the whole three-hour awards show telling people that their overlong speeches were losing the Boys & Girls Club of America money, the bit was a ruse.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Resilience, in the simplest terms, is the ability to recover from challenges, adapt to change and keep moving forward without losing your core sense of purpose.
    Raquel Gomes, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025

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