abruptly abandon
Frequency: 7.010.5 per million words
to suddenly and unexpectedly stop something
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- The company was forced to abruptly abandon the project due to a lack of funding.
- He abruptly abandoned his political career after the scandal broke.
- Why did you abruptly abandon our plans for the trip without telling me?
- The climbers had to abruptly abandon their ascent when the weather turned severe.
- Investors were shocked when the CEO decided to abruptly abandon the company's long-term strategy.
- She abruptly abandoned her studies and moved to another country.
- The search and rescue mission was abruptly abandoned as night fell.
- You can't just abruptly abandon your responsibilities like this.
- After years of research, they abruptly abandoned their initial hypothesis.
- The director was known to abruptly abandon film sets if things weren't going his way.