ejects

verb

present tense third-person singular of eject
1
as in outs
to drive or force out we summarily ejected the unwanted guest from our party

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2
as in expels
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 ejects This development forcibly ejects the mild-mannered mammal into both his parents’ den and the wild — literally — world of dating, where smelling suitors’ pee takes the place of an app profile. — Alison Herman, Variety, 22 May 2026 At the same time, a salty liquid containing calcium chloride (a salt often used to de-ice roads) is pumped through the regenerator, which carries the heat away and ejects it to the surroundings on exit. — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2026 Results published in Nature show that cells use bioelectricity to coordinate a complex collective behavior called extrusion, a vital process that ejects sick or struggling individual cells from tissue to maintain health and keep growth in check. — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Jan. 2026 If the battery overheats, the system acts like a launcher; sensors trigger a mechanism that ejects it from the vehicle. — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025 As a supernova explosion ejects the outer layers of these stars, their stellar cores collapse. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2025 At Luxe Pack, the company highlighted two body mist sprayers – one that ejects a fine mist, for a luxurious product application, and another with a continuous mist. — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ejects
  1. outs
  2. expels
  3. dismisses
  4. erupts
  5. chases
  6. spits
  7. banishes
  8. emits
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  • Ezekiel Richardson outs himself as a spy for the Continental Army to Claire.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Luckily, the king’s favorite wife, Esther, outs herself as Jewish.
    — Betsy Andrews, Saveur, 20 Feb. 2026
Definition of outs
Verb
  • To protect itself, the coral expels its own algae — a primary food, energy, and oxygen source — and soon loses its color.
    — Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Now they are being flown to Bhutan - a country that still refuses to recognize them as citizens and expels them on arrival to India or Nepal.
    — Maansi Srivastava, NPR, 21 July 2026
Definition of expels
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  • Rhaenyra also dismisses Mysaria, a wise move carried out in a very unwise manner, given the woman’s cunning.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • One automatically ascribes fraud to results that are often predictable, even routine; the other dismisses legitimate concerns as conspiracy theories.
    — Andrew E. Busch, The Conversation, 23 July 2026
Definition of dismisses
Verb
  • When Tae-ha starts a fire that erupts into an explosion, a horrified Eun-sae begins to remember her life before amnesia.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Later, the Astro Toilets, a more powerful force, descend from space and a civil war erupts.
    — Kyle MacNeill, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of erupts
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  • With Blair determined to stop him, while Leighton relentlessly chases his grand vision of creating a perfect world.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • All that guessing will create herding and noise trading as the crowd chases the crowd like a dog chases its tail, in a futile attempt to get ahead of the next unpredictable change in what humors the Big Player.
    — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of chases
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  • That shift matters because judgment, not technical execution, is becoming what separates a good analyst from a tool that just spits out answers.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • The most forceful argument to this end comes during a sequence in Hades, when Sinon (Elliot Page, giving the film’s best performance) essentially spits on Odysseus’s ethical and narrative framework for the world.
    — Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 21 July 2026
Definition of spits
Verb
  • That is why, when Diana falls in love with Lalo, the King simply banishes him.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Mary appears to have a form of treatment-resistant schizophrenia, until chemotherapy, following a diagnosis of lymphoma, banishes her psychiatric symptoms.
    — Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Definition of banishes
Verb
  • Because plutonium emits alpha radiation, human workers cannot touch the material directly.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Iron emits a golden yellow, nitrogen and oxygen glow red, sodium appears orange, and calcium looks violet.
    — Michael J. Caduto, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of emits

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“Ejects.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ejects. Accessed 15 Aug. 2026.

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