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The project was aborted
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abort the mission
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The screen answered: WARNING: COMMAND EXECUTION ABORTED (source)aborted = terminated (stopped) before completion
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His eyes glanced momentarily at me, and his lips parted with an abortive attempt at a laugh. (source)abortive = stopped before completion
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The little group of defenders shoved them back, sinking two destroyers and damaging nine other ships, shooting down two bombers, and forcing the Japanese to abort, their first loss of the war.† (source)
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He started plodding north from tidewater in February, but his enthusiasm fizzled on the lower reaches of the Ruth Glacier, still thirty miles from the peak, so he aborted the attempt and retreated to Talkeetna.† (source)aborted = terminated (stopped) before completion
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The explosion had turned the nuclear woman into a bloody mess, but she was the only casualty of the aborted bomb.† (source)aborted = terminated (stopped) before completion
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It is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elation" of men."† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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In an abort, Hermes would leave orbit within twenty-four hours.† (source)
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I thought of aborting.† (source)aborting = terminating (stopping) before completion
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Seivarden gestured abortively, arms still tightly crossed, one elbow lifting slightly.† (source)abortively = in a manner terminated (stopped) before completion
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I almost aborted her, though.† (source)aborted = terminated (stopped) before completion
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I wanted to struggle, but he pressed so hard with his fingers that he held my entire prone body in check; and as soon as I stopped my abortive attempt at rebellion, he sank his teeth into my neck.† (source)
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A curt "not for sale" was quite often the correct starting position with strangers as well, as it not only made the kind of buyer I was looking for more eager to strike a quick bargain, in cash, but also set the stage for me to abort mid-deal if something went wrong.† (source)
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This was late, but not late enough to warrant aborting the mission.† (source)aborting = terminating (stopping) before completion
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Awakened by an urgent call from the county coroner, Dameron presented himself at the jail around 3:00 a.m., whereupon detectives, who had been strenuously but abortively interrogating the suspect, withdrew to another room, leaving the minister to consult privately with his parishioner.† (source)abortively = in a manner terminated (stopped) before completion
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