abort
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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
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
In 2022, NASA’s uncrewed Artemis I test mission with the abort system successfully reach the moon — no abort needed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
"I just had a bit of understeer and was going to go off so I had to abort," said Norris.
From Barron's ● Nov. 29, 2025
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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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
If for any unusual cause the doe aborts one season, there is no reason why she will not carry her kid until full term another time, and experience has proven that she will.
From Practical Angora Goat Raising by
Shares in SpaceX fell further below their initial-public-offering price Friday after the spacecraft manufacturer aborted an attempt to launch its Starship rocket.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Some of the evidence was too much for one juror, leading to the trial being aborted and re-started with a new jury.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 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
Friday's flight followed an aborted trial one day prior.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Thus, that potential for other, independent experiments was preempted or aborted.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
Leclerc's fastest time was his third attempt to do a lap on the soft tyres after aborting his first two runs.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025
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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