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Jettison

To throw property overboard from a ship, especially in an emergency. Under maritime law, property that has been jettisoned (called jetsam) becomes the property of whoever finds it.
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The Replacement Killers, which otherwise recycles Woo motifs as nakedly as its title indicates, narrows Chow's persona to a monosyllabic drone a la Eastwood and jettisons the madly homoerotic dynamics.
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Such eruptions can happen several times a day on the surface of a neutron star--the superdense cinder left behind when a massive star jettisons its outer layers and collapses.
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During so-called solar storms, the sun jettisons blobs of matter and magnetic energy that are faster and denser than usual.
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