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
The appetite was always there (in 1921 there were approximately 150 women’s football clubs, with some games drawing up to 45,000 fans) but the seeds of infrastructure had been decimated, even aborted.
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Katie Baron, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
The pilots performed a go-around, a standard aviation maneuver in which the pilot aborts a landing due to safety concerns and climbs to a safer altitude to attempt the approach again.
—Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 18 Mar. 2025
Then, on May 1, SpaceX aborted a six-engine test-firing before reaching its planned 60-second duration.
—ArsTechnica, 13 May 2025
In any event, Lewis aborted his bid after Bezos hired him to run the Washington Post.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 12 May 2025
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Katie Baron, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
The pilots performed a go-around, a standard aviation maneuver in which the pilot aborts a landing due to safety concerns and climbs to a safer altitude to attempt the approach again.
—Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 18 Mar. 2025
Then, on May 1, SpaceX aborted a six-engine test-firing before reaching its planned 60-second duration.
—ArsTechnica, 13 May 2025
In any event, Lewis aborted his bid after Bezos hired him to run the Washington Post.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for abort
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The news came just days after the Trump administration canceled funding for Moderna to develop a vaccine against potential pandemic flu viruses, including the H5N1 bird flu, despite promising early study results.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
31 May 2025
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Musk has faced fierce backlash over his drastic cuts to the government's budget, including canceling thousands of federal jobs, and the dismantling of entire agencies.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 May 2025
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The property had been abandoned for about three years, according to Dawkins.—
Chase Jordan,
Charlotte Observer,
29 May 2025
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Ford abandoned its stake in its robotaxi developer Argo.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
29 May 2025
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The stage is now set for the NFLPA’s Committee on Agent Regulation and Discipline (CARD) to suspend France, or perhaps revoke his agent certification entirely.—
Chris Deubert,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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Within just three months, more than 1,000 Chinese nationals had their visas revoked, and the order remained in place under former President Joe Biden.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN Money,
30 May 2025
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But that idea gets scrapped not long after it’s introduced.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
22 May 2025
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Aspinall took that fight on short notice when the original main event for that card, Jon Jones vs. Stipe Miocic for Jones's heavyweight title was scrapped following an injury to Jones.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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“Abort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abort. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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