abandoner

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Noun
  • Stephen Fry, Ted Lasso star Nick Mohammed and singer Paloma Faith are just three of the 19 celebs entering the castle to sniff out the traitors from the faithfuls in the first celebrity season of the smash hit on the BBC.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 May 2025
  • The former sees the latter as a pro-European traitor and а success symbol born of the imperial decline that Soviet-era bureaucrats have yet to accept.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Its players are turncoats whose legacies are forever stained.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Many countries have a great turncoat in their history.
    Matthew J. Friedman, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The comedy-drama follows M, a university dropout who moves in with his terminally ill grandmother, Mengju, with hopes of securing an inheritance.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 May 2025
  • But right now, there’s a barrier for employers: the high prescription price coupled with high dropout rates.
    Scott Paddock, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Set in a crumbling Japanese metropolis rebuilt after a devastating explosion, Akira follows teenage rebels Kaneda and Tetsuo as secret government experiments unleash psychic forces capable of unmaking the world.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 21 May 2025
  • In response, the commanders decide to meet in Washington D.C., and Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) finally chooses a side once and for all and gives up their plan to June (Elisabeth Moss) and the fellow rebels.
    EW.com, EW.com, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • As threats from insurgents faded, crackdowns by an authoritarian government surged.
    Mitra Taj, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • As a result, the new international legal architecture curbed starvation tactics in interstate wars and during occupations but stopped short of fully criminalizing the weapon, particularly when used by poorer states against insurgent groups in civil wars.
    Boyd van Dijk, Foreign Affairs, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The games remain incomplete, and may in fact remain that way depending on what the Front Man decides to do with Gi-hun and all of the other mutineers.
    Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Jan. 2025
  • He’s been with them since the beginning, proving himself as a loyal friend and a valuable mutineer.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • But the president's new FTC chair, Andrew Ferguson, is an outspoken Big Tech critic on X and is signaling the panel won't be stacked with pro-industry quislings.
    Marc Caputo, Axios, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
Noun
  • The lawsuit reflects a stark philosophical turnabout from the position on gender identity issues taken during Democratic administrations.
    Alanna Durkin Richer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Loading your audio article OAKLAND — Less than a year after Alameda County agreed to his release from prison in an abrupt turnabout, a local resident has been charged with nine felonies in connection with a recent shooting.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Abandoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abandoner. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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