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Hamilton made a mistake on his first run in Q3, locking a brake at Turn Three, and had to abort the lap.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

“Would an autonomous drone abort a mission on its own, for example if a child enters the target area?” she asked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

An oxygen tank had exploded in their spacecraft, forcing them to abort their lunar landing plans.

From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026

In the second, crews headed to the Florida space coast, where they placed the abort system and test capsule on a modified missile.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026

“We could abort this mission right now and still make a fortune in patents.”

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

At the same time, the plant aborts nearly all fruits that contain larvae, which helps limit the plant's resource investment.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026

At the end of "Thalidomide," Plath writes, "The glass cracks across, / The image / Flees and aborts like dropped mercury."

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2022

Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert try to return to Earth after an explosion aborts the April 1970 moonshot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2019

A woman who aborts a child is operating within an emotional and spiritual context of fear, disappointment, confusion and sadness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2016

The Weschcke produces no pollen, being one of those curious freaks of nature which aborts its staminate flowers before they reach maturity.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 by Northern Nut Growers Association

A Games which he has backed vocally since Glasgow salvaged it from the wreckage of Victoria's aborted bid.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

The selloff accelerated after Thursday’s highly anticipated Starship test flight was automatically aborted due to engine issues on the booster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Shares in SpaceX were set to slide further below their initial public offering price after the spacecraft manufacturer aborted an attempt to launch its Starship rocket.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

In the DOJ’s aborted investigation of Southern Coal, prosecutors and federal agents had begun to gather evidence, scrutinizing testimony in the Justices’ various civil trials, and had approached former employees seeking information.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

Then there’s this noise like an aborted sob, and she pushes past me, straight through the door.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli

Such is her agony at the memory of aborting their baby that she relies on her diary entries from the time to carry the weight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

The trial of a woman accused of illegally aborting her baby collapsed due to "appalling and sloppy" reporting by the BBC, a judge has said.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024

After aborting the takeoff, the crew returned the plane to the gate, where passengers disembarked, the airline said, adding that the flight was then delayed overnight.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2023

However, while traveling at over 11,000 mph, the system experienced an anomaly, aborting the flight prematurely.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 10, 2023

A familiar example is the role of those two diseases in aborting the French effort, and nearly aborting the ultimately successful American effort, to construct the Panama Canal.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond