abandonment
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Downbeat and irreverent, Mr. deWitt’s road-trip novel glances at, though never lingers over, themes of responsibility, abandonment and agency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Hahn Nguyen, 75, was booked into Santa Ana jail on suspicion of animal cruelty and animal abandonment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The judge said diary entries by her suggest she was "overwhelmed by feelings of rejection, abandonment and emotional despair".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
The geographic pattern has remained in place for at least 9,000 years and appears to reflect the gradual abandonment of insect eating among European populations.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
“Redemption” resulted in the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and the effective abandonment of African Americans and all those who had fought for or supported an egalitarian racial order.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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