abandon
Example Sentences
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Magkos and Stefan say the evidence should encourage people with overweight or obesity not to abandon efforts to lose weight simply because maintaining weight loss can be difficult.
From Science Daily • May 17, 2026
As a non-profit, OpenAI would have to abandon its planned IPO and sever ties with powerful investors -- Microsoft, Amazon, and SoftBank -- whose funding is essential in the costly AI race.
From Barron's • May 14, 2026
That makes them harder, if not impossible, to abandon.
From Salon • May 14, 2026
But the success always sat uneasy with him and contributed to his decision to abandon his photography career in the early 1970s.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
Then, as Orde-Lees prepared to abandon the ship, the Boss said to him, “We’ve got it in the neck all right this time, haven’t we?”
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Vocabulary lists containing abandon
Vocabulary from the Introduction to "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal
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"The Perils of Indifference," Vocabulary from the speech
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"The Story of an Hour"
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