The phrase "abandon the possibility" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of giving up on a potential outcome or option in a particular situation.
Example: "After considering all the factors, we decided to abandon the possibility of expanding the project this year."
Alternatives: "give up on the possibility" or "forsake the possibility".
But to renounce what Friedrich von Hayek called economists' "pretence of exact knowledge" is not to abandon the possibility that economic theory can inform policymaking.
The West would formally have to abandon the possibility of bringing Ukraine into Nato; and the West too has in effect already done this by demonstrating again and again its unwillingness under any circumstances to fight to defend Ukraine.
Because reality is a human construct, we must never abandon the possibility of changing reality from its very source.
Also, we could not abandon the possibility that leaf protein underwent proteolysis during interaction.
The change made in Round 6 guidelines to abandon the possibility for separate health systems proposals can be interpreted as a consequence of this dilemma.
… If we prematurely insist on a quantitative measure for the effectiveness of museums, we will have to abandon the possibility of making them important" (p. 274).
For this reason, we abandoned the possibility of selective prospectivity in the criminal context in Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, 328, 107 S.Ct.
It takes the unexpected path from beginning to end; it never abandons the possibility of humour, however rough the going; and it casts its sympathies unpredictably.
Leroy Cain, head of the mission management team, said at an evening news conference that engineers had abandoned the possibility of trying again on Friday.
'That was the real clash, when rugby took over from tennis.' If there was any doubt in his mind about abandoning the possibility of a career in tennis, Williams's father removed it.
