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In which movie does the crew abandon their vessel after a deadly creature is discovered aboard?

abandon

[uh-ban-duhn] / əˈbæn dən /






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Rather than abandon the detour, the team decided to drill a sediment core there.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

In 2022, the Scottish parliament voted to abandon the local connection rule, external for homelessness applicants.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Doomsday warnings about artificial intelligence are replete with claims that AI-enabled cheating is pervasive, that students will soon abandon college en masse, and that for those who remain, rampant credentialism will quash the liberal-arts spirit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Its chief executive Patrick Pouyanne has made clear it will abandon the cap if a special tax is put into place.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

I wanted to win the match but I was afraid to win: Bobby could simply leave the match and abandon chess forever.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

The Justice Department rarely abandons cases that have already been charged, said Paul Butler, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and former federal prosecutor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

The chip abandons the standard method of spreading light into a rainbow.

From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026

Unless the Fed abandons that risk-management framework, focusing on a narrower inflation measure would not materially change policy if inflation risks are skewed one way or another.

From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026

She abandons her academic and career ambitions, takes a job as a court interpreter, and marries Michael, an affable nurse who has little idea of her emotional burdens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

She abandons half-read novels on chairs and tables.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

“As far as homelessness goes, I don’t see either candidate really showing a clear vision to solve this,” said Kayt Miranda, whose home was damaged by the fire at the abandoned property.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

“Unsheltered” people live outdoors, in cars, in abandoned buildings, or in other places deemed unfit for human habitation, HUD says.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

He said some of whom had been left feeling "abandoned, alone and confused, having had the rug pulled from under them".

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Mr. Rubenstein wisely abandoned his idea to eliminate John Denver’s “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” as part of the beloved seventh-inning-stretch ritual at Camden Yards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

I walked through the mines, where tools were abandoned and the pans full of mud suggested that the villagers still were not finding much gold.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Many people, including me, urged him to do so, but he refused because leaving would be abandoning what he had spent his life defending.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The company could reset its content-spending plans, which would take time; license live-sports broadcasts; or return to mergers and acquisitions after abandoning its bid for Warner Bros.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

With “New Avatar,” she wanted to “dismantle and disrupt” that dissonance without abandoning her R&B roots, she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

In April 1917, the German submarine UC-30 was making its way through waters near Rømø after abandoning a mission to Ireland because of engine problems.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

She was abandoning herself to a life of strictures, rules, obedience, housework, and a constant fear of disapproval.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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