abandon
Example Sentences
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Companies are abandoning this neighborhood and its aging office towers.
Eventually, she abandoned her career to campaign for animal welfare.
From BBC
Since the invasion, almost all of Russia's mega-rich have stayed quiet, and those few who have publicly opposed it have had to abandon their country and much of their wealth.
From BBC
For this reason, empathy is the greatest form of resistance, because it’s much harder to abandon someone if you can imagine yourself in their pain.
From Los Angeles Times
He pointed to research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which suggested that voters who felt financially insecure were abandoning Labour at a greater rate than those who felt more secure.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
