In a sentence
Six example sentences with abandonment, each labelled with its topic.
Her therapist traced the panic to the abandonment of a childhood ambition she had never let herself grieve properly.
Psychology
The board's abandonment of the overseas expansion cost two years of planning but saved the company from a much larger loss.
Business
The court read her silence over eleven years as abandonment of any claim to the disputed strip of land.
Law
The abandonment of the hardware line freed six engineers, and the software alone reached profitability within a year.
Startups
The abandonment of the ether theory came slowly, as one experiment after another failed to detect any drift.
Science
The party's abandonment of its rail pledge cost it three seats in towns that had waited twenty years for a station.
Politics
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- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
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