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
The crew, drenched and pale with seasickness, voted one by one to abort the mission.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
An oxygen tank had exploded in their spacecraft, forcing them to abort their lunar landing plans.
From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 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
“We will have to abort our mission if you are injured.”
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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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
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
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
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 plans have since been aborted - with Infantino apologising for his "errors".
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The second object collided with a cargo plane that had aborted its landing at Leipzig because of the closure, state officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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
After aborting the takeoff, the crew returned the plane to the gate, where passengers disembarked, the airline said, adding that the flight was then delayed overnight.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 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 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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