abandonment

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The ITF defines abandonment as cases where shipowners walk away from crews, leaving them unpaid, stranded, and without essentials such as food, water or medical care.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

I have a name, a body of work, but there are people who are jobless, stripped of their pensions and left in a state of utter abandonment.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

But what looks to some like abandonment feels to others like a new beginning – and that makes me excited to see how high the women in “Rooster” might fly in coming semesters.

From Salon • May 11, 2026

“To the vast majority of people government interference in matters of banking has become so much an integral part of the accepted institutions,” she acknowledged, “that to suggest its abandonment is to invite ridicule.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Once he opened Melquíades' room, looking for the traces of a past from before the war, and he found only rubble, trash, piles of waste accumulated over all the years of abandonment.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez