abandoned
Example Sentences
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“Overall, the digital asset market reads as cautious but orderly: positioning is being adjusted, not abandoned.”
They were abandoned by their mother shortly after birth, later adopted, and Joey was always a difficult child.
Eventually known as teddy bears, the toys, which the couple sold out of their Bedford-Stuyvesant shop, were so popular that Michtom abandoned the candy business and founded the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co.
The teenager was living in western France but visiting the Paris region in March 2020 when she said she was abandoned by friends in a room in the suburb of Champigny-sur-Marne.
From Barron's
No, he turns into an abandoned parking lot and stops the car haphazardly between two spaces.
From Literature
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