jutted; jutting
: to extend out, up, or forward : project
mountains jutting into the sky
a jutting jaw
: to cause to project
: something that juts : projection
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Verb
mountains jutting into the sky
the sandbar juts out into the ocean
Noun
Cape Fear is one of the more colorfully named juts along the North Carolina coast.
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The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2024
The centerpiece of the Ohtani posters and displays at the town hall is an iron cast of his right hand, which juts out from a cabinet so people can shake or hold it.
—Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
Andrew Keatts, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
Stan builds his Trump gradually, starting him out as a callow and uncertain young man who, outside of the petulant jut of his jaw, could be almost any 1970s New York striver.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Verb
In 1990: Paleontologist Susan Hendrickson discovered three huge bones jutting out of a cliff on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.
—The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2024
The centerpiece of the Ohtani posters and displays at the town hall is an iron cast of his right hand, which juts out from a cabinet so people can shake or hold it.
—Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
By the numbers: Democrats outnumber Republicans 162,000 to 109,000 in the district — which stretches from Coronado to Carlsbad along the coast and juts inland to cover Rancho Santa Fe, Mira Mesa and Rancho Penasquitos — and there are 101,000 independent voters.
—Andrew Keatts, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
Stan builds his Trump gradually, starting him out as a callow and uncertain young man who, outside of the petulant jut of his jaw, could be almost any 1970s New York striver.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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“Jut.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jut. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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