abandonment
Example Sentences
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Dr Kaye says it's important to remember "the goal isn't to be perfect, it's to avoid turning one moment into a full abandonment of the plan".
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She said Nike is likely to prevail because letting a registration lapse isn’t necessarily evidence of abandonment.
The Bronze Age in the area may have been a "time of particular stress" as other burial sites in the region show evidence of famine and abandonment.
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I think Helen, being the eldest child, has a weird sense of abandonment.
It accumulates in small abandonments of responsibility and mutual respect.
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