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abandon

[uh-ban-duhn] / əˈbæn dən /






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Her daughter had used Oregon’s shelter system designed for homeless youth to avoid a mother who never abandoned her.

From The Wall Street Journal

Discovery film and video cornucopia, which it abandoned Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal

Beyond 2040, if we want features on chips to become any smaller and gadgets to become more capable, we will probably have to abandon silicon altogether, according to every expert I spoke with.

From The Wall Street Journal

Across the country, chefs are abandoning the Sisyphean task of running high-end big city restaurants and returning to why—and what—they started cooking.

From The Wall Street Journal

Last year, she starred in “Lamento,” a musical short film made inside an abandoned Guatemalan beach resort; once a popular seaside destination known as Turicentro Likin, it is now tucked away behind the mangroves.

From Los Angeles Times