as in to dump
to end a usually intimate relationship with
still trying to get over being jilted by his longtime girlfriend
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Recent Examples of jilt
Screeching and yelling, jilted lovers, and generational disappointment flood into a finale as theatrical as a Broadway stage play despite affecting performances, wrapping up too rashly to consider how all of what just went down is about to deeply traumatize the young I-Jing for life.
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
The fan base would deserve better; jilted fan bases always do, but this is business.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 13 May 2025
The hard-to-pin-down Stack tangles with boiling-mad ex-girlfriend Mary (Hailee Steinfeld) who demands answers about why she was jilted.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
Bonner is eccentric and fierce and, jilted by a fiancé, something of a man-hater.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
The fan base would deserve better; jilted fan bases always do, but this is business.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 13 May 2025
The hard-to-pin-down Stack tangles with boiling-mad ex-girlfriend Mary (Hailee Steinfeld) who demands answers about why she was jilted.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
Bonner is eccentric and fierce and, jilted by a fiancé, something of a man-hater.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
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The last is dumping iron dust into the Southern Ocean to provoke phytoplankton blooms that would suck heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, a move that set off a backlash when an American entrepreneur tried it off Canada in 2012.—
Alec Luhn,
Scientific American,
11 Sep. 2025
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For years, the expanse of dirt and weeds had served as a convenient location for locals to dump trash.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Sep. 2025
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Much of central Saskatchewan received less than half an inch of rainfall in April and May, leaving many wetlands dry.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Sep. 2025
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Among its 14 plant oils are argan kernel and rice bran, which regulate sebum production and loosen dead skin cells, respectively—and, together, leave your pores looking significantly smaller and your skin significantly smoother.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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The solution is to ditch the floss and get an oral irrigator.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
15 Sep. 2025
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Gap, Pizza Hut and Tropicana are just a few companies that tried new logos only to ditch them after poor responses.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Jilt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jilt. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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