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Recent Examples of abort Under the president’s new blueprints for NASA, the agency looks set to depend on Elon Musk’s outfit to loft future Moon explorers aboard the SpaceX Starship from the Kennedy Space Center as SLS flights are aborted. Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025 Smokejumpers successfully jumped the Log Fire last night, after a morning attempt was aborted due to high winds. Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025 Figgis also has access to footage of Coppola’s earlier, aborted attempts to make Megalopolis. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025 SpaceX’s Starship's second shot at a 10th test flight Monday was aborted after weather conditions forced the company to halt liftoff from its South Texas site. Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for abort
Recent Examples of Synonyms for abort
Verb
  • This simple transmitter plugs into the headphone jack on your screen and connects to your favorite noise-canceling headphones to drown out the sounds of other passengers while allowing for hours of entertainment with your own personal earbuds.
    Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2025
  • While airlines don't yet have travel advisories for travel to and from Phoenix, airlines generally rebook passengers on the next available flight at no additional cost when a flight is canceled or delayed.
    Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Travis Decker, the man believed to have suffocated and abandoned his three young daughters at a campsite in the Washington state wilderness, is dead, Chelan County authorities said Thursday.
    Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The Gulf states are hedging against Israeli overreach—not abandoning America.
    Firas Maksad, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In April, more than 4,700 international students across the country had their immigration status revoked before it was unexpectedly restored weeks later.
    David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Each person controls who can use their likeness and can revoke or delete any cameo videos.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The decision to scrap an access-all-areas documentary — as revealed by The Athletic in July — also curtailed what could have been a valuable source of income.
    Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Textiles have been one of the biggest beneficiaries of AGOA and, by some estimates, up to 300,000 jobs could be at risk if AGOA were scrapped.
    Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Abort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abort. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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