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aborting

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verb

present participle of abort

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of aborting
Verb
Fifteen seconds after touching down, one of the pilots called for aborting the landing and the engine throttles were increased to a value consistent with go-around thrust, the NTSB said. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026 After aborting a Starship test flight last week, SpaceX plans to try again this Thursday evening. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 20 July 2026 Meanwhile, Antonelli made the mistake of aborting his lap, thinking there were double yellow flags. — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 1 July 2026 The crew coordinated with air traffic control and performed a go-around, which involves aborting a landing attempt and climbing away from the runway, to avoid an American Airlines plane that was departing from an intersecting runway, The Guardian reported. — Adam England, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026 Apollo 13 zoomed around the Moon after famously aborting its lunar landing mission. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2026 Just before Sunday’s collision, controllers were dealing with another plane that had declared an emergency after aborting a takeoff and smelling an odor on the plane. — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026 An investigation by the Spanish outlet La Marea uncovered contracts that restricted women’s movements during pregnancy, including clauses prohibiting travel abroad or aborting the fetus. — Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2025 San-ho enters the code, aborting the strike. — Kayti Burt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aborting
Adjective
  • Set in Palm Springs, California, and seen on Broadway in 2011, the play probes a rich, powerful, troubled and Reagan-esque West Coast political family and makes much of the metaphor of the arid, infertile desert.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
  • For as long as a queen is reproducing at a steady clip, all the other females in her colony will be totally infertile.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 26 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Companies will be required to provide a simple, accessible way to cancel a subscription through the same method used to sign up — making canceling as easy as signing up.
    — Lindsay Owens, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The Stanford researchers estimated that sellers can roughly double revenue because of consumer inertia, when people forget or put off canceling, and cancellation friction, when ending a subscription takes too much time or effort.
    — Barbara Booth, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • There may never be a satisfactory explanation for the WNBA’s insistence on abandoning such a loyal, durable fanbase, but the fans didn’t come to Mohegan Sun Arena one last time to ask why.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Demonstrate that the innovation function can help business leaders solve immediate problems without abandoning longer-term exploration.
    — Melanie Subin, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Milei, a fierce believer in free markets, has moved to open Argentina's economy, scrapping import restrictions and offering tax breaks to attract investors.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Charlie Puth has cancelled his upcoming Australian and New Zealand tour, scrapping a number of November arena dates first announced in April.
    — Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • After launching investigations into the incident and initially revoking the five officers’ access to the systems, IMPD Chief Tanya Terry suspended and recommended terminating four of the officers after one already resigned.
    — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 23 Sep. 2026
  • There was research at the congressional level this spring about the impact of revoking the federal gas tax, but that step has not happened.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 22 Sep. 2026

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“Aborting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aborting. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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