jettisoning 1 of 2

present participle of jettison

jettisoning

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noun

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Recent Examples of jettisoning
Noun
Her colleague Roberto Rodriguez, who ultimately voted against jettisoning the policy, asked to keep it in place while a subcommittee could work on changes to address others’ concerns. Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2025 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
  • Replacing filters can be costly, and discarding them every few months isn’t environmentally friendly.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The team believes their novel approach may soon provide a roadmap for a fluorine circular economy, where valuable compounds are harvested from waste, instead of simply discarding or burning the materials.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Rick Bailey, a Johnson County commissioner, said Thursday that the agreement with Fort Worth is not a long-term solution to the county’s dog dumping problem.
    Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Oct. 2025
  • While the 1972 London Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution put an end to the legal dumping of unused explosive munitions in the sea, these relics now provide a rich area of study for marine biologists, offering a real-world look at how animals adapt to habitat disturbances.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Gen Zers in their droves are ditching college to become their own boss.
    Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Some shoppers are even ditching their Dysons for it.
    Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The vast majority of those discards wind up in the trash, further exacerbating the avocado’s environmental impact.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The discards fill recycling bins to the brim and clutter closets, basements and hallways.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • World War II also provides the backdrop for Concord’s Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial, which honors 320 Black soldiers killed in a 1944 explosion while unloading munitions — a tragedy that led to desegregation of the military.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • That means loading, then later unloading at the airport here, and doing it all over again at the airport there.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The disappointment of losing to Watertown yet again, this time a 2-1 decision in early September that could’ve gone the other way.
    Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Already, animators are losing their jobs because it’s now done by AI, and soon, everything can be done perfectly by AI.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025

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