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abandonment

noun as in forsaking

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noun as in abdication

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Over the 22 months of her campaign — between the launch in January 2024 and its abandonment on Sept. 29 — Atkins traveled California from tip to toe, holding countless meetings and talking to innumerable voters.

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The club also insisted that the abandonment of the Tel Aviv derby against Hapoel Tel Aviv on Sunday, over what the police called "public disorder and violent riots", was not down to their supporters.

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Rajoelina attempted to dissolve the national assembly before the opposition could vote to strip him of his presidency for abandonment of post, but that didn't work.

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TiVo’s abandonment of hardware in favor of pitching its operating system is one manifestation of the shift.

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Numerous flashbacks include Lobb’s diary entries, which lay bare his marital infidelity and family abandonment for a second marriage to a woman not much older than his children.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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