abort
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Ahmed and Gilkar had asked West to abort the pregnancy after a scan at 20 weeks showed the foetus had a severe heart defect.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Regarding the mid-air incident, he said that a plane "was meant to land in Leipzig but then had to abort the landing".
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
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
In February its space agency conducted a successful in-flight abort test from Hainan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
“We could abort this mission right now and still make a fortune in patents.”
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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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
A “go-around” refers to when an aircraft aborts a landing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2023
At the end of "Thalidomide," Plath writes, "The glass cracks across, / The image / Flees and aborts like dropped mercury."
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2022
Following a pair of last-second launch aborts over two days, the third attempt worked for SpaceX on Wednesday as it blasted a large commercial communications satellite into orbit without a hitch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2017
Fruit about the size of an acorn, oval, fleshy, containing a milky juice; it is 2-celled and each cell contains a solitary, hard seed; of these one aborts.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
A United Airlines crew twice aborted their takeoff, and then declared an emergency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Infantino has been under increasing scrutiny since his aborted attempt to sell off a 21% stake in Fifa's commercial operations to a private investment company.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
FFE was aborted after Infantino's plan to sell 21% of the company to private investment companies received widespread criticism.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The deal involving Kushner comes after he was part of the recent controversy surrounding Fifa president Gianni Infantino and an aborted plan to sell off stakes in the governing body's competitions to private investors.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The Nichrome wire was lying in the charred remains of the cork, which had either slipped or been pushed out of place by the aborted exhaust.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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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
Watch as a KLM passenger plane performs a 'go-around' after aborting its landing at Aberdeen Airport during Storm Babet.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2023
There has been no confirmation of those conversations from the Kremlin or Mr. Prigozhin, who has largely been silent since aborting his revolt.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
“Aborting takeoff, aborting takeoff,” the United pilot responded.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 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
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