abandon
Example Sentences
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Increasingly, Permian landowners find themselves dealing with abandoned well bores that come back to life.
Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey wall of seemingly endless dials, screens and gauges that were supposed to prevent disaster.
From Barron's
“The irony is that the people who are most hurt, those that abandon the search for care, have the hardest time recovering damages,” he said.
At the crux of the dispute is whether Bartlett can show Nike abandoned the trademark after it failed to renew its registration.
Many had to abandon their Christmas plans, like Phil Johnson, who is originally from East Yorkshire.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
