as in cancelled
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 aborted
Joe Biden aborted his re-election bid last year after a public meltdown on a debate stage.
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Philip Elliott, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
Under the president’s new blueprints for NASA, the agency looks set to depend on Elon Musk’s outfit to loft future Moon explorers aboard the SpaceX Starship from the Kennedy Space Center as SLS flights are aborted.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Smokejumpers successfully jumped the Log Fire last night, after a morning attempt was aborted due to high winds.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Figgis also has access to footage of Coppola’s earlier, aborted attempts to make Megalopolis.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
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Philip Elliott, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
Under the president’s new blueprints for NASA, the agency looks set to depend on Elon Musk’s outfit to loft future Moon explorers aboard the SpaceX Starship from the Kennedy Space Center as SLS flights are aborted.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Smokejumpers successfully jumped the Log Fire last night, after a morning attempt was aborted due to high winds.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Figgis also has access to footage of Coppola’s earlier, aborted attempts to make Megalopolis.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aborted
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Around the same time, a Black History Month project – a living wax museum in which her other daughter was planning to depict the poet Maya Angelou – was also canceled.—
BrieAnna J. Frank,
USA Today,
12 Oct. 2025
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But our flights had been canceled amid rocket fire and regional escalation, fallout from Israel’s latest offensive in Gaza and its war with Iran.—
Reem Kassis,
The Atlantic,
11 Oct. 2025
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Even Microsoft, once Google’s fiercest rival in the browser space, eventually abandoned its own engine and rebuilt Edge on Chromium.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
11 Oct. 2025
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The San Francisco Chronicle’s Mackenzie Chung Fegan abandoned anonymity on day one, and the New York Times’ dual critics Tejal Rao and Ligaya Mishan went as far as starring in several videos to announce their tenure at the paper.—
Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
10 Oct. 2025
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And yet, the agency’s human-resources office—which handled ethics issues—has been scrapped, according to Alt CDC, a team of anonymous public-health officials that has been crowdsourcing updates on the firings.—
Tom Bartlett,
The Atlantic,
13 Oct. 2025
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The main channel scrapped music videos back in 2011 and instead pushed those out to its sister channel.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Aborted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aborted. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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