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When Gavalas reported seeing a car just like his own, Gemini told him it was part of a government surveillance operation and told him to abort the mission.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

Instead, the veteran kicker said, he noticed a problem with the hold and made the split-second decision to abort.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025

Norris was blisteringly quick on his first lap but a loss of front grip in Turn Two on his second meant he had to abort and opened the door to his team-mate.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025

"I just had a bit of understeer and was going to go off so I had to abort," said Norris.

From Barron's ● Nov. 29, 2025

The little group of defenders shoved them back, sinking two destroyers and damaging nine other ships, shooting down two bombers, and forcing the Japanese to abort, their first loss of the war.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand

At the same time, the plant aborts nearly all fruits that contain larvae, which helps limit the plant's resource investment.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026

At the end of "Thalidomide," Plath writes, "The glass cracks across, / The image / Flees and aborts like dropped mercury."

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2022

October: The Houston Space Center aborts a launch after six seconds.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2021

Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert try to return to Earth after an explosion aborts the April 1970 moonshot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2019

When one of the two seeds aborts, the remaining one acquires a greater size, and fills the interior of the fruit, which in that case, of course, has but one cellule.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)

Some of the evidence was too much for one juror, leading to the trial being aborted and re-started with a new jury.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

In the DOJ’s aborted investigation of Southern Coal, prosecutors and federal agents had begun to gather evidence, scrutinizing testimony in the Justices’ various civil trials, and had approached former employees seeking information.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

Thursday's aborted trial featured several rounds of stopping and starting the countdown clock.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

The crash happened before midnight Sunday when a firetruck was headed toward an aborted United Airlines flight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

More accurately, Sirius 1 was aborted after one hour.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Such is her agony at the memory of aborting their baby that she relies on her diary entries from the time to carry the weight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Leclerc's fastest time was his third attempt to do a lap on the soft tyres after aborting his first two runs.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025

There has been no confirmation of those conversations from the Kremlin or Mr. Prigozhin, who has largely been silent since aborting his revolt.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023

However, while traveling at over 11,000 mph, the system experienced an anomaly, aborting the flight prematurely.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 10, 2023

A familiar example is the role of those two diseases in aborting the French effort, and nearly aborting the ultimately successful American effort, to construct the Panama Canal.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond