abandon
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Sharma would browse electronics, fill an online basket and abandon it.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
It didn’t mean you had to abandon your own point of view.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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
According to the study, this changing political environment may have made it easier for the sect to abandon its previously rigid position and adopt the more practical calendar used at the Temple.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Somehow, I had to drag the iron monsters away from Miss Rose and get the others to abandon the ambush.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
Even if Warsh’s Fed abandons that level of transparency, the minutes will still be useful for investors, according to Englander.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
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
"It abandons Wales to a private only system no-one here, in all conscience, would design," he said.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
“Only if he abandons his siege of Moat Cailin.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
A trio of glass panels removed from an abandoned building in Ciudad Juárez still bears the missing-persons posters that were hung there years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The crash between a Volkswagen Passat and a marked Cleveland Police vehicle happened at South Bank, near Middlesbrough, on 22 August and followed a police pursuit which was abandoned.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
The area has been a focus of a government crackdown on illegal mining, with soldiers deployed alongside police to tackle criminal networks operating around abandoned mine shafts.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Backers say it closes a loophole in existing law by stating that animals seized by police officers or animal control officers without a warrant can be deemed abandoned after a 14-day period.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
There was a smooth bit of asphalt just outside the abandoned tire shop that would do nicely.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
That issue nearly resulted in SpaceX abandoning its plan to send the rocket to orbit.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
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
Additionally, McVay went to his usual bag of tricks, abandoning a successful running attack in favor of a tired and rusty Matt Stafford passing incessantly, being harassed and ineffective.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Their identities confirm that all three survived the expedition's first three years and were among the crew members who ultimately tried to escape the Arctic after abandoning the trapped ships.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 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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