abandon
Example Sentences
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Plans to ban passengers from a peak train service between Manchester and London have been abandoned after a U-turn by the government's rail safety regulator.
From BBC
Lawyers representing immigrants in prolonged detention say the government is keeping people locked up in hopes of wearing down their clients so they abandon their fight to remain in the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times
Or they have to abandon equality and issue team orders that require Piastri to support Norris.
From Barron's
Camite was briefly used as a riot control agent by the American police post-World War One, but was abandoned after safer options such as CS gas were invented.
From BBC
"He brings hope when the Lebanese feel abandoned and we feel uplifted," he says.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
