leaving
AmericanEtymology
Origin of leaving
First recorded in 1300–50, leaving is from the Middle English word leving. See leave 1, -ing 1
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But in 2020, a bankruptcy court ruled that the company could abandon its shuttered Vernon plant, leaving the cleanup to California taxpayers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
It is therefore not surprising that he informed Geffroy he wouldn’t be leaving Giverny when World War I broke out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Her 93-year-old father changed his will, leaving everything to her brother, who had moved in with him, and nothing to her.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
The milestone illustrates just how far Voyager 1 has traveled since leaving Earth and how challenging it has become to communicate with a spacecraft exploring such distant regions of space.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
I was angry back at her, hysterical almost, saying all manner of things I should not have said, about Papi going off and leaving us, about how parents always ruin the lives of their children.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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