abandon
Example Sentences
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But their threats have teeth this time—not because they are abandoning great cities, but because they have figured out they don’t have to.
Her daughter had used Oregon’s shelter system designed for homeless youth to avoid a mother who never abandoned her.
Discovery film and video cornucopia, which it abandoned Thursday.
Beyond 2040, if we want features on chips to become any smaller and gadgets to become more capable, we will probably have to abandon silicon altogether, according to every expert I spoke with.
Across the country, chefs are abandoning the Sisyphean task of running high-end big city restaurants and returning to why—and what—they started cooking.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
