as in to cancel
to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to)
had to abort the mission to Mars when they lost contact with the satellite
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The Dating Game, directed by Violet Du Feng, shows us the struggle of young men to find spouses in a country where males outnumber females by a large margin (a result of China’s one-child policy, which saw many female offspring aborted or abandoned in favor of male children).
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2025
The leader of an international pro-life organization lauded the Nativity scene set up by the Vatican that highlighted the more than 25,000 babies who were not aborted this year thanks to the group's outreach initiatives.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 17 Dec. 2025
Amazingly, Figgis also has access to footage of Coppola’s earlier, aborted attempts to make Megalopolis, featuring Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Billy Crudup, Ryan Gosling, and Virginia Madsen — which just serves to highlight the ever-changing, fever-dream-like quality of the ultimate project.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
An investigation by the Spanish outlet La Marea uncovered contracts that restricted women’s movements during pregnancy, including clauses prohibiting travel abroad or aborting the fetus.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2025
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2025
The leader of an international pro-life organization lauded the Nativity scene set up by the Vatican that highlighted the more than 25,000 babies who were not aborted this year thanks to the group's outreach initiatives.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 17 Dec. 2025
Amazingly, Figgis also has access to footage of Coppola’s earlier, aborted attempts to make Megalopolis, featuring Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Billy Crudup, Ryan Gosling, and Virginia Madsen — which just serves to highlight the ever-changing, fever-dream-like quality of the ultimate project.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
An investigation by the Spanish outlet La Marea uncovered contracts that restricted women’s movements during pregnancy, including clauses prohibiting travel abroad or aborting the fetus.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2025
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After the devastating Eaton and Palisades wildfire turned the annual event into more of a fundraising effort last year — Davis’ party was one of the few Grammy Week events that wasn’t canceled in 2025 — the 2026 edition went back to its more traditionally celebratory feel.—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Feb. 2026
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Miami flight cancellations The effects of Winter Storm Gianna has caused 20 flights to be canceled in and out of Miami International Airport.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
1 Feb. 2026
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Restaurant tables sat empty, business windows went dark and students’ desks were abandoned in several cities across the country Friday amid a nationwide strike in protest of the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
31 Jan. 2026
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According to charging documents, officers later found Seymour’s apartment unlocked and abandoned, her vehicle parked at Salt Lake City International Airport, and a notebook outlining plans to discard phones and documents.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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As of mid-2024, the NAU chapters of Delta Chi and Sigma Pi were suspended for multiple years, with their national organizations also revoking the chapters’ charters, according to the university website.—
Kathy Tulumello,
AZCentral.com,
1 Feb. 2026
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Like DuBois, Robeson’s passport was ultimately revoked, amounting to a kind of imprisonment, Bryant writes.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2026
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That hard-line stance came as some House Democrats voiced opposition to the stopgap funding for DHS, which was a compromise granted by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in order to scrap the original bill funding the agency.—
Zach LaChance,
The Washington Examiner,
2 Feb. 2026
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Sometimes, that means having to scrap certain ideas at the last minute and make adjustments to pre-set plans on a whim.—
Meredith Wilshere,
PEOPLE,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Abort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abort. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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