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Recent Examples of abortive Less than a year and a half later, Mr. Lukashenko allowed Russia to use his country as a staging ground for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with an abortive thrust south from Belarus toward Kyiv. Tomas Dapkus, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025 Yet Texas law forbids its state maternal mortality review committee from looking into the deaths of patients who received an abortive procedure or medication, even in cases of miscarriage. Ziva Branstetter, ProPublica, 17 Jan. 2025 Trump had abortive talks with Democrats on issues ranging from guns to immigration, though little came of them. W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Jan. 2025 One is Eliot Spitzer, who during his abortive tenure as governor, knocked heads to get slow-mo insurers to pay the giant settlement that a court had awarded to Silverstein. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for abortive
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Adjective
  • Several attempts to establish at least a partial ceasefire have been unsuccessful.
    DASHA LITVINOVA, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
  • Later that month, Kalyn Free, an attorney from Oklahoma who was unsuccessful in her bid for a vice chair position, filed a complaint alleging that the DNC improperly merged two separate questions into a single vote.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
Adjective
  • Though their efforts were futile, their remains provide remarkable insight into the doomed city’s final moments.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025
  • Through the two-hour journey that makes up the Thunderbolt’s origin story, the audience experiences the way these skilled fighters continue butting heads over the most futile issues.
    Malik Peay, Essence, 8 May 2025

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“Abortive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abortive. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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