abandoner

Definition of abandonernext

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Noun
  • Her competitors easily and near-unanimously tagged her as a traitor and banished her in the third episode.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2026
  • With only three players remaining, Maura and Rob voted to banish Eric, leaving Rob with the total prize pot of over $200,000 as the last remaining traitor to make it to the end.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Several aspects of the turnover process affect the likelihood that a leaver will recommend their former firm.
    Joseph Brazel, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The Conservatives, currently led by Kemi Badenoch, slammed Braverman following her defection, characterizing her as an inevitable turncoat and questioning her mental faculties.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 26 Jan. 2026
  • But the result is that a fair number of former Sanders allies or staffers have turned out to be MAGA turncoats, cranks, or washed out of politics altogether.
    Ryan Cooper, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Fans also see the start of the apocalypse through the lens of Annie (Shailene Woodley), a med school dropout turned Graceland tour guide, who survives for years after the catastrophe.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Both Howard and Carroll County's dropout rates are below 5%.
    Tara Lynch, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Judas, the betrayer of Jesus Christ, was believed to be the 13th Apostle to join the table at the Last Supper.
    Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • These are Loyalists who have been killed by rebels.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
  • While Machar is currently on trial for offenses including treason, fighting has intensified in areas seen as his strongholds, where government troops are trying to disperse the rebels.
    ABC News, ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • At least 169 people were killed after insurgents raided a village in a remote area of South Sudan, a local official said Monday.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Mar. 2026
  • At least 169 people were killed after insurgents raided a village in a remote area of South Sudan, a local official said Monday.
    CBS News, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Or an historian of Polynesian culture giving a lecture about tattooing, or the time Captain Bligh stopped on the atoll to look for the mutineer Fletcher Christian.
    Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Language purists like to remind anyone who will listen that decimation actually means the slaughter of one in ten people, and was the military punishment wielded by the Roman army against deserters and mutineers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Abandoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abandoner. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.

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