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the art of leaving, perfected by everyone who swore they never would
means The act of leaving someone or something behind completely, often after a duty or promise to stay — or the resulting state of being deserted.
from From Old French abandoner, built from the phrase mettre a bandon — 'to put under someone else's control,' to give up to another's power. That bandon meant authority or jurisdiction, and a thing 'a bandon' was surrendered, set loose, left to fate. English borrowed the verb 'abandon' and later grew this noun from it, so buried in the word is the act of letting go of control entirely.
- legal term
- Property abandoned by owners legally becomes anyone's to claim
- brain wiring
- Rejection lights up the same regions as physical pain
- ghost towns
- Thousands sit fully built, emptied by economics overnight
- animal instinct
- Some mothers abandon weak young to save the strong
- art movement
- Abandonment issues fuel a startling amount of great poetry
pripyat ukraine — city evacuated in 1986 after chornobyl nuclear disaster, 50,000 residents fled within 36 hours
hashima island japan — coal mining facility abandoned in 1974, once housed 5,259 people in world's highest population density