abort
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One aircraft that had to abort its scheduled landing at Leipzig-Halle airport then collided mid-air with an unknown object nearby but later landed safely elsewhere, a government spokesman said.
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
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
An oxygen tank had exploded in their spacecraft, forcing them to abort their lunar landing plans.
From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026
Here is a abort example of the problems of chivalry, which he thought about in his early times.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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A second attempt begins at 11:17 p.m., but the crew aborts and declares an emergency when flight attendants report feeling sick due to an unexplained smell permeating the cabin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
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
It aborts even the efforts of planetary evolution.
From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Milan C. Edson
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
Singaporean billionaire Lim Chap Huat is suing Brookfield Asset Management over an aborted joint venture to buy industrial properties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Authorities also are looking into a second unidentified object that collided with a cargo plane after the plane aborted its landing at Leipzig due to the closure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The plane is now turning away from Kennedy, after the aborted first attempt at landing.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
“Aborting takeoff, aborting takeoff,” the United pilot responded.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 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 man and woman have appeared in court charged with illegally aborting a baby and concealing the birth of a child.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 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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