abandon
Example Sentences
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The San Francisco Chronicle and CNN last week published allegations by several women about Swalwell's conduct, leading his most prominent backers to abandon him.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
If America were to abandon its insistence on secure navigation in international waters, it would reverse U.S. foreign and security policy since the maritime Quasi-War with France in 1798.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
I didn’t want to abandon that instinct so much as … give it a little more range.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2026
From that point in the novel to its wrenching end, June searches for her baby with the passionate abandon of a first-time mother and the aching hunger of every mother separated from her child.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
The boyish abandon of that stout man was charming to behold, for though he ‘carried weight’, he danced like an India-rubber ball.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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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