abandoned
Example Sentences
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In Australia, the government said three members of the visiting Iranian women's football team -- reportedly two players and a technical staffer -- abandoned their asylum protection in the country and decided to return home.
From Barron's
Shiv, too, is abandoned, with Tom at her father’s side instead of holding her hand.
From Salon
"Every day we get reports of, horses, dogs, pigs, goats, everything. So many animals being either stranded, abandoned, locked up and chained," Kenny said.
From BBC
Still, for years thereafter my mother and father never abandoned their original positions on Carter’s handling of the crisis.
This outcome was seen across Europe in the 1980s and ’90s before wealth taxes were widely abandoned External link.
From Barron's
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