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abandon
B2Academic AWL-8Frequent NGSL-2to leave somebody, especially somebody you are responsible for, with no intention of returning
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[LAUGHTER] This liberating discovery enables me to proceed-- [LAUGHTER] --without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, the law, or politics for the giddy delights
J.K. Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech
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Uh, so they've sort of abandoned the Entity List approach and they put the entire China—you know—on their list.
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