as in left
to cause to remain behind
forsaking most of our possessions, we evacuated just before the hurricane struck
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Before 2014, the building was abandoned and MIA wanted to tear it down.—
Vinod Sreeharsha,
Miami Herald,
6 Sep. 2025 -
Drummond is blamed for the deaths of the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a home's front yard in rural west Tennessee.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Sep. 2025
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The Red Sox got a run back on Masataka Yoshida’s RBI single in the third, but the club later stranded men at the corners in both the fourth and sixth, squandering what turned out to be the club’s last scoring opportunities.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
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The two met when Bethany was a teenager on a school trip who got stranded in Warsaw for a month when ash from an Icelandic eruption grounded planes across Europe.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement Advertisement The numbers are catching up to a story being told by locals and visitors for several months now, of an eerily empty Vegas Strip and deserted casino floors.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
13 Aug. 2025
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Several Cuban doctors who deserted the mission sued PAHO, claiming the organization benefited from a labor-trafficking scheme in which the Cuban government pocketed about 85 percent of the salary payments made by Brazil.—
Nora Gamez Torres,
Miami Herald,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Forsook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forsook. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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