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
The hard-to-pin-down Stack tangles with boiling-mad ex-girlfriend Mary (Hailee Steinfeld) who demands answers about why she was jilted.
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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
While that’s still true today, Welch is not going to be jilted at the altar again.
—John Romano, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
Fans’ opinion of Sherman and his gutter-level spending is reflected in home attendance that last year ranked 29th of 30, beating only the A’s team in the midst of jilting Oakland.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 17 Feb. 2025
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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
While that’s still true today, Welch is not going to be jilted at the altar again.
—John Romano, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
Fans’ opinion of Sherman and his gutter-level spending is reflected in home attendance that last year ranked 29th of 30, beating only the A’s team in the midst of jilting Oakland.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 17 Feb. 2025
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Nearby, medical waste had been dumped by the waters, and police had to rope the area off until it was cleaned up.—
Laura Schulte,
jsonline.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Most of Carroll’s voters have been dumped into a district that includes a big chunk of Baltimore County, which is as Democratic as Carroll is Republican, and far more populated.—
Chris Roemer,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Aug. 2025
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Where are opportunities left untouched simply due to a lack of capacity?—
Scott Brighton,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Enzo Maresca’s ominous words in his press conference at Cobham on Thursday left little room to avoid the conclusion that Colwill had suffered a significant injury.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
8 Aug. 2025
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The move reflects broader shifts in media, as more consumers ditch cable in favor of streaming.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
11 Aug. 2025
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have renewed their Netflix deal in a major boost for the couple after there were reports that the streamer was moving to ditch them.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Jilt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jilt. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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