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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Recent Examples of abort
Meta’s contribution to the space, however aborted, will still prove invaluable in the long term — and the metaverse will continue to evolve and grow.
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Cortney Harding, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
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).
—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
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Cortney Harding, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
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).
—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
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Flights to Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara airports have been diverted or canceled by major airlines, including Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, and Alaska Airlines.—
Pamela Avila,
USA Today,
23 Feb. 2026
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In a statement shared on social media, the Broadway League announced that while all matinees will continue as scheduled, evening performances have been canceled.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Feb. 2026
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All three figures were once associated with the regime’s internal movement for incremental reform; all three long ago abandoned that stance to advocate the wholesale transformation of the system instead.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
20 Feb. 2026
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Despite the relatively recent creation of the Government Oversight Committee, the legislature has largely abandoned its oversight role.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
20 Feb. 2026
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Which the President is trying to revoke right now.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
22 Feb. 2026
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The defendants sought to cover their tracks after Google's internal security systems flagged Samaneh's activity and revoked her access to company resources in August 2023.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
20 Feb. 2026
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Preparations With the storm zeroing in, John Berlingieri scrapped plans for a family trip to Puerto Rico.—
Anthony Izaguirre,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 2026
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That change sought to keep tough limits for some common PFAS, but also proposed scrapping and reconsidering standards for other types and extending deadlines.—
Michael Phillis,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2026
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“Abort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abort. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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