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abort

verb as in stop or cancel something

verb as in terminate or fail to complete pregnancy

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The Maryland-based TV station owner’s tactics in an aborted takeover of Tribune Media drew FCC scrutiny.

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Watson was heavily criticised for saying that women should have the right to abort her unborn child if tests proved it would be homosexual.

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The aborted deal also leaves Lukoil’s global network—a portfolio spanning major refineries in Europe, oil fields in the Middle East and gas stations around the world—hanging in the balance.

An attempt to spend time with Sussex as a local player in 2008 was aborted.

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The video of the aborted detention reviewed by the Times contradicts public accounts by Department of Homeland Security officials, who said Parias had “previously escaped from custody.”

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