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were jettisoning

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To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.

  • The ballooners had to jettison all of their sand bags to make it over the final hill.

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The South Koreans knew they were jettisoning the Venezuelans.

To unfriendly ears, however, Ali and his colleagues were jettisoning decades of disciplined progress in favour of a self-indulgence that enabled the untalented to hide behind a smokescreen of free expression.

In both cases, investors were jettisoning shares after growing weary of slow profit growth.

He says: "I don't know whether they were actually trying to bomb the castle and missed it, or whether they were jettisoning the bombs to get away.

There was an indication of hydraulics failure and they were jettisoning fuel over the ocean "so as not to rain gasoline on the residents of Bermuda" he quipped, as I recall.

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The seeds were jettisoned.

Long, dramatic Manchesterian sentences were jettisoned.

Instead, they were jettisoned one by one.

Songs she was unable to retrofit were jettisoned.

At the embassy here, words like "assistance" and "aid" were jettisoned for "partnership" and "co-responsibility".

Its tanks, still filled with ninety gallons of the nerve agent, were jettisoned at two thousand feet.

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