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- noun Plural form of
abandonment .
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Examples
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Officials have called the abandonments a misuse of a new law that was mainly intended to prevent so-called Dumpster babies - the abandonment of newborns by young, terrified mothers - but instead has been used to hand off out-of-control teenagers or, in the case of the father of 10, to escape financial and personal despair.
Signs of the Times 2008
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Officials have called the abandonments a misuse of a new law that was mainly intended to prevent so-called Dumpster babies - the abandonment of newborns by young, terrified mothers - but instead has been used to hand off out-of-control teenagers or, in the case of the father of 10, to escape financial and personal despair.
Degrees of Freedom 2008
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Officials have called the abandonments a misuse of a new law that was mainly intended to prevent so-called Dumpster babies - the abandonment of newborns by young, terrified mothers - but instead has been used to hand off out-of-control teenagers or, in the case of the father of 10, to escape financial and personal despair.
Obsidian Wings 2008
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Institutional abandonments such as hospitals and asylums are particularly vulnerable to this cheap sort of exploitation.
Ian Ference: On 'Ruin Porn' Ian Ference 2011
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Institutional abandonments such as hospitals and asylums are particularly vulnerable to this cheap sort of exploitation.
Ian Ference: On 'Ruin Porn' Ian Ference 2011
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The Japanese seem to have it all where large-scale abandonments are concerned.
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The Japanese seem to have it all where large-scale abandonments are concerned.
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Institutional abandonments such as hospitals and asylums are particularly vulnerable to this cheap sort of exploitation.
Ian Ference: On 'Ruin Porn' Ian Ference 2011
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Institutional abandonments such as hospitals and asylums are particularly vulnerable to this cheap sort of exploitation.
Ian Ference: On 'Ruin Porn' Ian Ference 2011
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Institutional abandonments such as hospitals and asylums are particularly vulnerable to this cheap sort of exploitation.
Ian Ference: On 'Ruin Porn' Ian Ference 2011
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