abandonment
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Catherine of Aragon was not a passive victim who tolerated Henry’s abandonment of her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
There it unfolds—with graceful and terrible inevitability—into a mosaic of abandonment and love, fanaticism and terror.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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
Dürrenmatt penned “The Visit” as a critique of Switzerland’s neutrality after World War II, which he saw as an abandonment of ethics driven by capitalism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
With a childish feeling of abandonment, Turner watched them until they were out of sight.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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