abortive
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Abortive stays at five prep schools and two colleges were transformed into a gilt-edged education at Groton and Yale.
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Abortive also were attempts to solve the Chaco boundary dispute between Bolivia & Paraguay.
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Abortive attempts were made by the United States' commissioners to form a treaty with some of them.
From Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Lossing, Benson John
Abortive plants are used, but the men do not know what they are.
From Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Lumholtz, Carl
Abortive though these were and followed by Hamidian absolutism, they were legal precedents, never forgotten.
From The New World of Islam by Stoddard, Lothrop
Vocabulary lists containing abortive
"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "Beyond Vietnam" (1967)
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And Then There Were None
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