abandon
Example Sentences
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Tablets on the windowsill gather dust, remnants of an abandoned online school project.
From Barron's
The economy grew at annual rate of 2.1% in the third quarter, a rate that was fast enough to prompt the RBA to abandon interest rate cuts and start tightening policy.
“When we abandon diplomacy,” the Minnesota congresswoman said, “we choose destruction.”
Instead, what we are seeing is controlled compression — a market reducing emergency hedging without abandoning protection entirely.
From MarketWatch
But all words had abandoned me, and the only thing to escape my throat was a tiny squeak of horror.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
