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 JetBlue plane abruptly aborted its takeoff after a controller yelled at its pilots to stop.
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Emily Steel, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2025
To avert a crisis, the FedEx plane changed course, aborting the landing.
—Mackenzie Schmidt, People.com, 30 Jan. 2025
The Kiwi driver tried his best to improve his lap times in Q1 but ran wide at Turn 15, leading him to abort his flying lap.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
An American Airlines jet aborted a landing at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., to avoid a collision with another plane on Tuesday morning, aviation officials said.
—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 26 Feb. 2025
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Emily Steel, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2025
To avert a crisis, the FedEx plane changed course, aborting the landing.
—Mackenzie Schmidt, People.com, 30 Jan. 2025
The Kiwi driver tried his best to improve his lap times in Q1 but ran wide at Turn 15, leading him to abort his flying lap.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
An American Airlines jet aborted a landing at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., to avoid a collision with another plane on Tuesday morning, aviation officials said.
—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 26 Feb. 2025
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Related article British Airways hit by delays and disruption after ‘technical issue’ Air France canceled eight flights to and from Heathrow, but the flag carrier of France says routes to other UK airports are operating normally.—
Tamara Hardingham-Gill,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025
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Passengers whose flight was cancelled and no longer wished to travel would be entitled to a refund.—
Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
21 Mar. 2025
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Iran later abandoned provisions of the JCPOA and forged ahead with its nuclear program.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2025
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The administration’s decision to abandon plans to move D.C.’s elite fighter jet squadron to Maryland comes months after the state’s congressional delegation and Gov. Wes Moore (D) worked to secure the planes to prevent the state from losing its flying mission.—
Meagan Flynn,
Baltimore Sun,
29 Mar. 2025
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Batched denials issued in silence In 2023, Afghan SIV applicants began to see their COM applications denied or their former COM approvals revoked in swathes.—
Beth Bailey,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
21 Mar. 2025
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Ranjani Srinivasan, the architect and Fulbright scholar at Columbia who also taught at Barnard College, left the country last week after the US Consulate in India informed her in early March her student visa had been revoked.—
Andy Rose,
CNN,
20 Mar. 2025
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The city held a meeting to hear residents’ concerns, but the follow-up meeting — meant to address those concerns — was scheduled for the day after the plan was scrapped.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
20 Mar. 2025
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Replays were scrapped altogether from the first round onwards this season.—
Jessy Parker Humphreys,
The Athletic,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Abort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abort. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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