Example Sentences
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Q. I Aborted Our Daughter: My husband and I were thrilled when we found out about my pregnancy, but that ended when our baby girl was diagnosed with Trisomy 18.
From Slate • Jul. 7, 2014
She writes: Aborted weddings are as cinematically moreish as champagne, such as the popular choice of Wayne's World 2's spoof on The Graduate that is tragic, comic, exciting and reassuring.
From The Guardian • Aug. 25, 2010
Aborted fetal tissue has shown promise as a treatment for Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aborted: a structure developed so as to be unfit for its normal function obsolete or atrophied.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
