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abort

[uh-bawrt] / əˈbɔrt /


VERB
terminate or fail to complete pregnancy
Synonyms
STRONGEST
Antonyms
WEAK
carry to term continue keep


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It also apparently has some weird all-knowing knowledge, because it warns its clueless mom about all the evil characters conspiring to abort the baby.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

Cancel the tee booked at the Belfry, rearrange the trip to Cadbury World and abort the shopping jolly to the Bullring.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

She decided to abort, saying in a 2023 interview: "In my life, I have had many kinds of courage but not the courage to become a mother."

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

When Gavalas reported seeing a car just like his own, Gemini told him it was part of a government surveillance operation and told him to abort the mission.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

He has finally upgraded from a hint to a crew obligation: he wants to abort the landing.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

When one of the two seeds aborts, the remaining one acquires a greater size, and fills the interior of the fruit, which in that case, of course, has but one cellule.

From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Amid the fallout over FFE, Wenger, who has traditionally been loyal to Infantino, distanced himself from the aborted plot.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

The final twist came this week after a British investment firm named BC Partners aborted its plan to fund the league.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

“Your Mother” came together after Tariq and Ali failed to get a “Blade” reboot green-lighted, with Ali utilizing his martial-arts training from that aborted Marvel project.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

A United Airlines crew twice aborted their takeoff, and then declared an emergency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

On the aborted landing, the plane’s Ground Proximity Warning System went off no fewer than fifteen times, telling the captain that he was bringing in the plane too low.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

He lost a bid for San Diego mayor in 2012, and two tries for Congress, and also twice pursued a voter ID ballot measure before aborting the efforts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

The blunt family lawyer had been representing Greg Gillespie, an Arizona man Owens had accused in a different lawsuit of trying to coerce her into aborting a twin pregnancy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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, and whose current location is uncertain.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 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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