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abortive
adjective as in failing to achieve a goal
Strongest matches
Weak matches
Example Sentences
So it is possible the abortive flight over Kostyantynivka was one of Moscow’s first attempts to test its new weapon in combat conditions.
It led him to launch his short, abortive presidential bid.
Later came boarding school and an abortive spell at Oxford University.
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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