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
As the youngest of four with an alcoholic father, his family struggled so much financially that his mother wanted to abort him.
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
Apparently, the plan was aborted after several FBI supervisors refused to cooperate, viewing it as inappropriate.
—The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025
San-ho enters the code, aborting the strike.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
The American Airlines jet was going at a speed of around 154 mph and was nearly airborne when the controller immediately instructed the plane to abort takeoff.
—Ayesha Ali, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2025
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
Apparently, the plan was aborted after several FBI supervisors refused to cooperate, viewing it as inappropriate.
—The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025
San-ho enters the code, aborting the strike.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
The American Airlines jet was going at a speed of around 154 mph and was nearly airborne when the controller immediately instructed the plane to abort takeoff.
—Ayesha Ali, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2025
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The Barca and Madrid reactions to the Miami game being cancelled was certainly divergent, and there will be lingering tension in the Bernabeu’s VIP areas on Sunday.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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The principal didn’t immediately realize the alert had been canceled, a spokesperson for Baltimore County Public Schools told WBAL.—
Karina Tsui,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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His car was later found abandoned, and authorities began searching the area.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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To garrison those vulnerable treasure houses, Britain had to reassign regiments from tours of duty in North America and abandon Philadelphia, the biggest prize the redcoats had taken so far.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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The administration has also detained and revoked the visas of several activists supportive of Palestinian causes.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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Upon taking office later that month, former President Joe Biden moved to narrow the scope of the lease in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, placing a temporary moratorium on oil and gas activity in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and revoked the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
3 Nov. 2025
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Shifts in the sequel’s production timeline meant that some plots and characters had to be scrapped, so they could instead be potentially explored in the third film.—
Yasmeen Hamadeh,
PEOPLE,
5 Nov. 2025
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Pfizer notoriously faced a string of setbacks with its own weight loss candidates, scrapping two separate pills over the last two years due to safety issues.—
Annika Kim Constantino,Bertha Coombs,
CNBC,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Abort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abort. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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