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The seas were so rough, the captain jettisoned some of the cargo to better stabilize the ship.
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The policy is to jettison excess fuel prior to landing on the carrier.
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Basketball players did passing drills on deck, but the wind kept jettisoning the balls into the Atlantic.† (source)
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His survival instinct told him to jettison the canister right now.† (source)jettison = to get rid of something not wanted
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The first stage depleted its fuel, and the booster coasted for a fraction of a second as it jettisoned stage clamps via explosive bolts.† (source)
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Ten peculiar children and one peculiar bird were made to fit in just three stout rowboats, with much being jettisoned and left behind on the dock.† (source)
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He looked at me then like I was an object to be jettisoned if necessary.† (source)
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In Ayemenem they danced to jettison their humiliation in the Heart of Darkness.† (source)jettison = to get rid of something not wanted
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By jettisoning the Under 15 team, Luma still wouldn't have time for herself exactly, but she could focus her energies on the kids who were reciprocating her commitment to the Fugees.† (source)
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The smell that hits us as we enter nearly jettisons me backward—out the door, through time, back to fourth grade.† (source)
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It had jettisoned four thousand years of memories like so much ballast.† (source)
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Now it was the old man who wanted to stick with Vic and Roger and it was the kid (by this time forty years old) who wanted to jettison them, arguing with some logic that it would be madness to hand their account over to a two-bit ad agency six hundred miles north of the New York pulsebeat.† (source)
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Basketball players did passing drills on deck, but the wind kept jettisoning the balls into the Atlantic.† (source)
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With a huge heave, he jettisoned the lot into the suspended night.† (source)
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Worst-case scenario, we jettison the section on Björck.† (source)
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If he didn't know better, that is at first glance, he could have sworn that the thing resembled nothing more than an enormous quivering ...And then the thing exploded, jettisoning an amazing amount of tunnel waste directly at the unfortunate manservant!† (source)
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