abandon
Example Sentences
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“The worst outcome for the region in America is for the Kurds to be abandoned. There’s no reason for them to be punished for helping America.”
Like many cable networks, CNN has experienced declines in ad revenue and ratings over the past few years in part due to consumers abandoning cable TV and in part due to its own programming struggles.
The driver then drove a few blocks away in the damaged Maserati and abandoned it, they said.
From Los Angeles Times
“She didn’t abandon us and she’s not dead!”
From Literature
In a city that feels rigid with concern about its own image projection, jazz is the only music that demands we abandon script.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
