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The phrase "abandon seeking" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where one is encouraged to stop searching for something, but it is not a common expression.
Example: "In order to find peace, sometimes you must abandon seeking external validation."
Alternatives: "stop searching" or "give up the quest".
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"I am calling upon President Nkurunziza to abandon seeking for another third term to prevent the country from massive violence and killings," the Christian Science Monitor reported him as saying.
"The idea that we put kids with Asperger's, heroin addictions, depression, and extreme anxiety disorders in one program with a rigid, regimented schedule and expect it to help all of those kids—how could that be? "Americans have this idea that addiction and drug use is about complete hedonistic abandon, seeking extra pleasure and defying your parents.
"The idea that we put kids with Asperger's, heroin addictions, depression and extreme anxiety disorders in one programme with a rigid, regimented schedule and expect it to help all of those kids – how could that be? "Americans have this idea that addiction and drug use is about complete hedonistic abandon, seeking extra pleasure and defying your parents.
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"Abandon" seeks to examine curdled ambition but in the end simply seems to suffer from it.
He was elected Virginia governor in 2001 and explored but later abandoned seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
Later that year, when Smith promised to abandon treasure seeking, Hale offered to let the couple to live on his property in Harmony and help Smith get started in business.
It's ostensibly the one original property in this week's pack, though this cute-enough story of an abandoned kitten seeking sanctuary with a ramshackle conjuror's crew cribs so heavily from Pixar and DreamWorks that you'd hardly know it.
Headline: "UK should abandon bias, seek closer ties with China".
Many people abandon or seek to give away their horses because of the cost, said Ericka Caslin, director of the Unwanted Horse Coalition.
In return for the Leicestershire police force's agreeing to release the information, Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, agreed to abandon a lawsuit seeking release of all information held by the department.
The initial objective of the JNA, that of Yugoslav unity, was either abandoned or sought through support for Milošević.
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