abandonment
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The bayou battle breaks new ground: It marks a rare instance where an electric utility has been allowed to cut off customers through a regulatory process called abandonment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
While some states still enforce these laws, they often include exceptions, including parental abandonment or failure to provide support, which would relieve the adult children of any liability.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026
She was subsequently arrested on suspicion of animal abandonment and resisting arrest.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
"What has happened here is a complete abandonment and a recklessness around the trust that Elkin and Bell had with the families that they were supposed to be serving," he said.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
The memories swirled, silver white and strange, and without hesitating, with a feeling of reckless abandonment, as though this would assuage his torturing grief, Harry dived.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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