abandon
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Nearly four in five have witnessed patients abandon treatment because of problems with the process.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
While he spoke of cooperation, Rubio also said "nations need not abandon their distinct identities in order to recognise their common interests".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Much like the initial debate over the use of forensic DNA testing, Gialamas said, the answer wasn’t to abandon the technology but to create safeguards to “ensure responsible and trusted use.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
They were first brutally forced to adopt Christianity and abandon their shamanism, before assimilation efforts intensified in the 19th and 20th centuries as the far north's economic importance grew.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
The Russians were not eager to intervene, but they could not simply abandon their fellow Slavs of Serbia.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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In touching later chapters the dog becomes a steadying companion to Dava as her memory abandons her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The chip abandons the standard method of spreading light into a rainbow.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
Unless the Fed abandons that risk-management framework, focusing on a narrower inflation measure would not materially change policy if inflation risks are skewed one way or another.
From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026
She abandons her academic and career ambitions, takes a job as a court interpreter, and marries Michael, an affable nurse who has little idea of her emotional burdens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
But soon enough, he abandons that role for his true and faithful calling: needing to pee.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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Argentine prosecutors began presenting their closing arguments Thursday at the trial over the death of football icon Diego Maradona, arguing that he was abandoned to his fate by a "chaotic" medical team.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Callison said that Sunrise is poised to move quickly with new projects because it kept its development team together during the pandemic and picking up sites abandoned by other developers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The first is that miners abandoned some donkeys in the region during the gold rush; the second is that a group of ranchers drove over a population of burros from Death Valley in the 1950s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
An investment in a firm that recovers “salmon gold” from abandoned mines in western Canada and Alaska promises to add traceable metal meanwhile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Leah and company found the Fox cottage, which she called “the haunted house,” abandoned.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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Tigray rebels were abandoning their regional capital in northern Ethiopia on Saturday, a local journalist and residents told AFP, as pro-government forces advanced on the city.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
But the Fed wound up abandoning that approach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
This dynamic does not necessarily signal that stocks are set for an imminent reversal to the downside or that investors are abandoning equities, said Adam Turnquist, chief cross-asset strategist at LPL Financial.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
With “New Avatar,” she wanted to “dismantle and disrupt” that dissonance without abandoning her R&B roots, she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
And my father couldn't imagine abandoning the life in Kraków he had worked so hard to construct for himself and his family.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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