abandon

It describes someone who wants closeness, but worries that people in their life will eventually reject or abandon them.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

When temperatures rise, the females abandon their pups to hunt for food, he explained.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

Company owner Tatiana Kim has promised "not to abandon" the sellers, and she has offered temporary discounts and waived shipment fees, but this has done little to calm fears of further attacks.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Xerox upped the pressure on HP for months until the pandemic prompted it to abandon the pursuit, citing economic and health impacts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

White had seen plenty of lawmen killed on the frontier, and though he didn’t talk much about these deaths, they had nearly caused him to abandon his calling.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Unless the Fed abandons that risk-management framework, focusing on a narrower inflation measure would not materially change policy if inflation risks are skewed one way or another.

From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026

"I will not be a minister who abandons yet another generation of Territory kids," Cahill said when the details of the review were announced.

From BBC ● May 15, 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 ● 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 ● Mar. 21, 2026

For now, she abandons it and watches Marco as he crosses the room to reach the bookcases lining the wall.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

With their dated decor, hotel-like hallways, overhead ceiling tiles and abandoned office spaces, the Backrooms resemble the overlooked non-places of modern life – spaces many people recognize but rarely notice.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

Weston says the abandoned animals were a message to say: "We've been. You didn't catch us this time."

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

He also lamented the fact that so many farms in Spain have been abandoned.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

The waterfront restaurant was opened in 1972 by Robert Mardian, a Stanford graduate who abandoned his plans to pursue a career as a lawyer to instead enter the restaurant business.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

“Father says I must tell you everything, but the inside story of the life of the leper in a poor and sadly abandoned leper colony is too full of heartaches, misery, and want,” she writes.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

The research doesn’t suggest abandoning the traditional 70% to 80% income-replacement rule.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

The process has never been tested, and right now former state Rep. Charles Booker, a Democrat, and GOP Rep. Andy Barr are squaring off for the seat McConnell is abandoning.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

Instead of abandoning AI stocks, investors need to rebalance oversized AI winners and reduce mega-cap concentration, she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

"Even though I am leaving the national team, I am not abandoning Korean football altogether," Hong said.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Ophie could understand why someone would want to do that, even though she couldn’t imagine abandoning her people.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland