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abandonment

noun as in forsaking

noun as in abdication

noun as in abandon

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“We hope that the government does not abandon its investigation of disturbing and egregious allegations of sexual misconduct at the El Paso detention center,” Natarajan said.

Since 2017, five Alaska officials have resigned or abandoned their reelection campaigns following harassment or sexual misconduct allegations.

In 1985, they abandoned their classic recipe in favor of “New Coke,” which tasted more like Pepsi.

Merkel’s crisis management has been accompanied by her government’s historic decision to abandon its balanced-budget policy, suspending constitutional debt limits as part of a massive stimulus push.

From Fortune

It includes a mix of abandoned buildings and gentrified buildings, and has amazing restaurants and outdoor venues, and historical sites to enjoy.

Every adopted person has to deal with the fact of abandonment, and what that has done to them.

The sense of insecurity is heightened by the uncertainty and a feeling of abandonment.

Harry and Peter are bound by the loss of their fathers and their abandonment issues.

From The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You by Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin.

Of course arch-conservatives think social breakdown is caused by the abandonment of traditional gender roles.

But her parents, did you never discover any thing about them—who or what they were—the motive of so strange an abandonment?

In this supreme moment of Felipe's abandonment of all disguises, she saw his whole past life in a new light.

Correct views of a vow, as altogether wrong, should lead to its abandonment, or a total reconstruction of it.

The flash of knives—I saw two men stuck—made as little impression upon him as the awful abandonment of—well, of the females.

And now that evil spirit of abandonment came to Rita—communicated to her, possibly, by her companion.

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On this page you'll find 41 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to abandonment, such as: dereliction, desertion, jettison, and null.

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

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