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Six example sentences with abject, each labelled with its topic.
The poem's speaker calls his own silence abject, a cowardice he cannot excuse by pointing at anyone else.
Literature
Two rounds of funding vanished into an abject product that the founders themselves refused to install on their own phones.
Startups
The minister's abject excuse, that nobody had told him about the missing money, satisfied neither the press nor his party.
Politics
The abject defending in the third quarter let a reserve guard score twenty points without a hand in his face.
Basketball
The sequel was an abject failure, so poorly made that the studio pulled it from cinemas after one weekend.
Movies
The company's abject customer service, with calls going unanswered for weeks, cost it the contract.
Business
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