abandonment
Example Sentences
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Still, the abandonment caused some fans to express their displeasure with messages to the BBC's live coverage of the Test.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Ultimately, “The Path to Zero” becomes a story not only about the end of a 20-year war, but about accountability, abandonment and moral injury.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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
And then we see this shift in him, and ultimately abandonment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 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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