abandon
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He’d made similar efforts at the Tour de France before having to abandon with an illness.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 28, 2026
Sharma would browse electronics, fill an online basket and abandon it.
From BBC β Sep. 23, 2026
It didn’t mean you had to abandon your own point of view.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 22, 2026
According to the study, this changing political environment may have made it easier for the sect to abandon its previously rigid position and adopt the more practical calendar used at the Temple.
From Science Daily β Sep. 20, 2026
In war, military leaders will sometimes strategically abandon all efforts to defend a city when it’s clear that they will lose.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Even if Warsh’s Fed abandons that level of transparency, the minutes will still be useful for investors, according to Englander.
From MarketWatch β Jul. 7, 2026
She abandons her academic and career ambitions, takes a job as a court interpreter, and marries Michael, an affable nurse who has little idea of her emotional burdens.
From Los Angeles Times β Apr. 22, 2026
"No farming community abandons fields and homes lightly," says archaeologist and co-first author Ramiro Barberena, a researcher at CONICET.
From Science Daily β Mar. 21, 2026
"If the US abandons its standards, we aren't 'saving' the American auto industry; we are leaving it on an island of obsolete technology," Oge wrote in Forbes.
From BBC β Feb. 13, 2026
It may slip off treacherously, but its keeper never abandons it.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Attorney Jeanine Pirro indicted Hearn in early July for allegedly causing more than $1,000 in property damage to the pool but abandoned the case.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 1, 2026
The controller is the state’s fiscal watchdog, responsible for auditing government agencies, administering payroll for state employees and reuniting abandoned assets with their owners.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 1, 2026
The cause of the fire was listed as “Human — abandoned campfire.”
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 30, 2026
The crash between a Volkswagen Passat and a marked Cleveland Police vehicle happened at South Bank, near Middlesbrough, on 22 August and followed a police pursuit which was abandoned.
From BBC β Sep. 29, 2026
Very few occupations in the nineteenth century were open to women, fewer still to abandoned mothers.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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Many people, including me, urged him to do so, but he refused because leaving would be abandoning what he had spent his life defending.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 22, 2026
Filmmaker Steven Spielberg has listed the sprawling Los Angeles ranch where he housed his horses for nearly $30 million—decades after abandoning controversial plans to transform the property with an enormous five-story riding facility.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 21, 2026
With “New Avatar,” she wanted to “dismantle and disrupt” that dissonance without abandoning her R&B roots, she says.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 18, 2026
In April 1917, the German submarine UC-30 was making its way through waters near Rømø after abandoning a mission to Ireland because of engine problems.
From Science Daily β Sep. 14, 2026
But Booth must have been unhappy with Herold for abandoning Powell, whom he especially liked.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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