abandonment
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Additional data on large herbivores and historical climate conditions helped the team evaluate whether environmental changes or other factors contributed to the site's abandonment.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
Impacciatore: If there is that moment where we can break, there is a real abandonment and there is a real freedom ...
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
The ITF defines abandonment as cases where shipowners walk away from crews, leaving them unpaid, stranded, and without essentials such as food, water or medical care.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
I have a name, a body of work, but there are people who are jobless, stripped of their pensions and left in a state of utter abandonment.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
A dam across the Missouri River in Nebraska silted up so disastrously that a noisome ooze began to pour into the town of Niobrara, eventually forcing its permanent abandonment.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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