abandon
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With Strategy, crypto investors had been closely tracking the company—led by bitcoin evangelist Michael Saylor—to see if it would abandon its previous stance of refusing to sell bitcoin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026
Berlin would then go first in announcing the news on Monday, with German officials saying that Merz had "suggested" to Macron that they should abandon the jet.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
But how does the brain know when it's time to abandon an old strategy and try something new?
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
So while there is reason to fret about the U.S. consumer, there might not be enough cause to abandon the retail stocks with strong competitive advantages.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
One can reasonably say, then, that Huygens had been wrong to claim that his result was in some way ‘better’ than Boyle’s, and wrong to abandon his earlier beliefs in the light of it.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing abandon
Vocabulary from the Introduction to "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal
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"The Perils of Indifference," Vocabulary from the speech
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"The Story of an Hour"
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