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The Louvre, the seat of French kings until Louis XIV abandoned it for Versailles in the late 1600s, now receives around nine million visitors a year.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
His proposed ballroom “represents another way this presidency has abandoned its imperative of projecting modesty, openness, and stability,” the architect and historian Neil Flanagan complained in the Atlantic this month.
From Slate • May 18, 2026
Not the hardware—which Jobs reluctantly abandoned because it cost too much and nobody wanted it—but the operating system, which proved to be as revolutionary as Jobs always claimed it would be.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
The final day of running on Coniston Water for Donald Campbell's restored Bluebird was abandoned due to high winds and further technical woes.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
And there it was, the reason Clara’s ordinary good sense had and would always be abandoned when it came to him.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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