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The phrase "abandoned ideas" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to concepts or thoughts that were once considered but are no longer pursued or valued.
Example: "In the brainstorming session, we revisited some abandoned ideas that could still hold potential for our project."
Alternatives: "discarded concepts" or "neglected thoughts".
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Although he gained a degree in English and drama from Exeter University and a Certificate in Education from Clifton College, Nottingham, Tarrant abandoned ideas of becoming a teacher when he had the opportunity to join the company at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter.
And I am sure that there are any number of comfortable but secretly discontented writers for television and movies who have a slush pile of abandoned ideas for plays sitting in a drawer, or on the hard drive of an old computer.
We decided we'd each put three abandoned ideas in a hat, and then pull one out to be rescued.
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One of them is the return to the abandoned idea of using hydrogen for transport but in a different aspect.
Often she would abandon ideas fixed in rehearsal, trusting to what felt right in the moment of performance.
While other media and entertainment companies, like Viacom, retrench and abandon ideas of synergy, Parsons resists any talk of breaking up the Time Warner conglomerate.
It didn't abandon ideas but rather turned the conservative intellectual process over to a small number of billionaires.
This was the last invasion of Mani as Ibrahim abandoned any ideas of conquering it.
U2 had abandoned these ideas for more literal themes in the 1980s.
Later on, Barrett changed his mind and abandoned the idea.
But he abandoned the idea when residents made it clear they disliked the idea.
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