abandon
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I weighed what Nolan chose to protect, tweak and abandon in his own version and concluded that he wanted to make an action-tragedy about societal decline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Cairo has for months played a conservative peacemaker role that analysts say it is unlikely to abandon now, even after it has come under attack itself.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
As the eldest child, he also felt he couldn't risk his life and abandon his family.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Now he faces another tricky sale: convincing his colleagues to abandon the intellectual habits of an economics profession he thinks led it astray.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
She believed Lena enough to abandon her work to audition.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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Even if Warsh’s Fed abandons that level of transparency, the minutes will still be useful for investors, according to Englander.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
The chip abandons the standard method of spreading light into a rainbow.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 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
"If the US abandons its standards, we aren't 'saving' the American auto industry; we are leaving it on an island of obsolete technology," Oge wrote in Forbes.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
She abandons the cards and turns to something else instead.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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The tiny fish have a voracious appetite and work wonders as natural mosquito-control agents in abandoned swimming pools, small residential ponds, and other confined aquatic habitats.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
On St Kilda, before the archipelago was abandoned in 1930, birds were killed for their meat and also oils for fuel and waterproofing, while the feathers were used for clothing and bedding.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
One of the first clues of hesperaloe’s suitability came when the team saw the plants growing at an abandoned Arizona state test-crop facility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Blair, whose IMDb site lists dozens of movies and television shows dating back to 1968, founded the Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation in 2003 to rehabilitate and rescue abandoned and abused animals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
No, he turns into an abandoned parking lot and stops the car haphazardly between two spaces.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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With dinner already half-imagined, I could pass the tomatoes and melons without treating each one as an alternate future I might regret abandoning.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
"AWS and Amazon can have a wildly successful business without its own frontier model," Jassy said on Thursday, but he denied it was abandoning the effort.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
That doesn't necessarily mean abandoning it but it needs to be refined more so its purpose is immediately understandable, she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
The research doesn’t suggest abandoning the traditional 70% to 80% income-replacement rule.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
She would not want the children to feel she was abandoning them, and she doubted she would sleep that night anyway.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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