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abortive

adjective as in failing to achieve a goal

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So it is possible the abortive flight over Kostyantynivka was one of Moscow’s first attempts to test its new weapon in combat conditions.

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It led him to launch his short, abortive presidential bid.

Later came boarding school and an abortive spell at Oxford University.

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President Donald Trump for an abortive summit in Vietnam in February and two months later held his first — and so far only — meeting with Mr. Putin in Vladivostok.

Mr. Prigozhin had relocated a large contingent of Wagner mercenaries to a site in Belarus as part of a deal to end his abortive uprising against Russian President Vladimir Putin in late June.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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