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UKabortive
/ɐbˈɔːtɪv/
/əˈbɔɹtɪv/
Examples
1. [Narrator] 1976 saw two abortive attempts at the future.
2. If you get a migraine once a month or once every six months, an abortive strategy may work.
3. In fact, two abortive attempts were made to enlist government support for a university in the 17th century, but after that, there were no further stirrings of academic aspiration until 1947.
4. Volvo had an abortive bid to merge with Saab in the late 1970s and explored selling off the car division to Renault in the early 1990s.
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