abort
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In February its space agency conducted a successful in-flight abort test from Hainan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
An oxygen tank had exploded in their spacecraft, forcing them to abort their lunar landing plans.
From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026
In 2022, NASA’s uncrewed Artemis I test mission with the abort system successfully reach the moon — no abort needed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
The front of the car lost grip, and kept losing grip, and Norris had to abort to prevent going off the track.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
In an abort, Hermes would leave orbit within twenty-four hours.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
At the same time, the plant aborts nearly all fruits that contain larvae, which helps limit the plant's resource investment.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
At the end of "Thalidomide," Plath writes, "The glass cracks across, / The image / Flees and aborts like dropped mercury."
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2022
October: The Houston Space Center aborts a launch after six seconds.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2021
Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert try to return to Earth after an explosion aborts the April 1970 moonshot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2019
Fruit about the size of an acorn, oval, fleshy, containing a milky juice; it is 2-celled and each cell contains a solitary, hard seed; of these one aborts.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
A Games which he has backed vocally since Glasgow salvaged it from the wreckage of Victoria's aborted bid.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Shares in SpaceX fell further below their initial-public-offering price Friday after the spacecraft manufacturer aborted an attempt to launch its Starship rocket.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
In the DOJ’s aborted investigation of Southern Coal, prosecutors and federal agents had begun to gather evidence, scrutinizing testimony in the Justices’ various civil trials, and had approached former employees seeking information.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026
To be sure, an aborted launch isn’t all that surprising.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
When he aborted the landing, he should have circled back around immediately, and he didn’t.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
Russell, who won the sprint race earlier on Saturday, was on the back foot after aborting his first lap.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
Such is her agony at the memory of aborting their baby that she relies on her diary entries from the time to carry the weight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
“Aborting takeoff, aborting takeoff,” the United pilot responded.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2023
However, while traveling at over 11,000 mph, the system experienced an anomaly, aborting the flight prematurely.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 10, 2023
A familiar example is the role of those two diseases in aborting the French effort, and nearly aborting the ultimately successful American effort, to construct the Panama Canal.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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