be abandoned

Example Sentences

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Researchers stress that these hybrid bees are not completely free of mites, and current management practices should not be abandoned.

From Science Daily • Apr. 20, 2026

Others are concerned the turbines might be abandoned, leaving them with ocean “tombstones.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

Last year Scottish government planning reporter David Buylla recommended the scheme be abandoned.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

"We want to go home, but if we go home without money, then what? We've been working ourselves to the bone out at sea. How can we just be abandoned like that?"

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

“If our sites of worship, sacred groves, and ancestors’ graves are to be abandoned to the fishes, then I shall stay with them!”

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo