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Ahmed and Gilkar had asked West to abort the pregnancy after a scan at 20 weeks showed the foetus had a severe heart defect.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Cancel the tee booked at the Belfry, rearrange the trip to Cadbury World and abort the shopping jolly to the Bullring.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Regarding the mid-air incident, he said that a plane "was meant to land in Leipzig but then had to abort the landing".

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

When Gavalas reported seeing a car just like his own, Gemini told him it was part of a government surveillance operation and told him to abort the mission.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

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 Jerome Beers Thomas

Earlier this month, European football's governing body said that despite Infantino's plan being aborted following widespread condemnation, the conditions required to prevent a boycott had "not been met".

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

The deal involving Kushner comes after he was part of the recent controversy surrounding Fifa president Gianni Infantino and an aborted plan to sell off stakes in the governing body's competitions to private investors.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

The plans have since been aborted - with Infantino apologising for his "errors".

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Singaporean billionaire Lim Chap Huat is suing Brookfield Asset Management over an aborted joint venture to buy industrial properties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

British Bulldogs was aborted 'cause Tom Yew's a minor legend in Black Swan Green.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

Monroe is lured into aborting that pregnancy, but when she conceives a second time, her sentient fetus reappears.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

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