abandonment
Example Sentences
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Anxious attachment is often associated with worries about rejection or abandonment.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Instead, the Backrooms provide a collectively imagined and online environment of unease, abandonment and liminality.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
But urbanisation, changing land use and the abandonment of grazing and other traditional farming practises, appear to have significantly reduced available food sources, the wildlife groups noted.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
Sadness is also in the mix, as it has been since that devastating song about abandonment in “Toy Story 2.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
All it took, he said, was the demolition of a handful of housing projects and the abandonment of homes in key downtown neighborhoods to send syphilis over the top.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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