abandoner

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Noun
  • In doing so, Din becomes a traitor to his bounty hunter guild, led by Greef Karga (Carl Weathers).
    Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 16 May 2026
  • As a result, he was tried in absentia, declared a traitor and subjected to the state’s harshest penalties.
    Kimberly Nath, The Conversation, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • Several aspects of the turnover process affect the likelihood that a leaver will recommend their former firm.
    Joseph Brazel, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The Conservatives, currently led by Kemi Badenoch, slammed Braverman following her defection, characterizing her as an inevitable turncoat and questioning her mental faculties.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 26 Jan. 2026
  • But the result is that a fair number of former Sanders allies or staffers have turned out to be MAGA turncoats, cranks, or washed out of politics altogether.
    Ryan Cooper, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The schools improved as more children attended them, and dropout rates at one school fell from 30-40 percent to 5 percent.
    Carrie Brandon Elliot, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • The two first crossed paths in 2001, when Rich Boy was Maurice Richards, a soon-to-be dropout at Tuskegee University, studying mechanical engineering.
    Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Lesch plays the savior’s anguished betrayer not as an intellectual equal who fiercely debates him and loses all patience with the movement.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026
  • Judas, the betrayer of Jesus Christ, was believed to be the 13th Apostle to join the table at the Last Supper.
    Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • In March, Washington sanctioned Rwanda’s defense forces and several senior officials, accusing them of funding the M23 rebels who have taken over mineral-rich areas of eastern DR Congo.
    Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 15 May 2026
  • Chance understands why some kids rebel.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • But even larger numbers of socially conservative white working-class voters in Wales, Scotland and northern England — the traditional bedrock of Labour’s support — switched to Reform, the insurgent party founded by Nigel Farage, the renowned Brexit campaigner.
    Ian King, CNBC, 13 May 2026
  • According to the military, security forces launched an operation in the province’s district of Barkhan to rout out insurgents that Islamabad claims are backed by India.
    ABC News, ABC News, 13 May 2026
Noun
  • Language purists like to remind anyone who will listen that decimation actually means the slaughter of one in ten people, and was the military punishment wielded by the Roman army against deserters and mutineers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Few among the bureaucratic, business, and even military elites denounced the mutineers, exposing limited support for Putin.
    ANDREI YAKOVLEV, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2025
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“Abandoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abandoner. Accessed 23 May. 2026.

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