aborning

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  1. adverb While coming into being or being created: "Our own revolutionary war almost died aborning through lack of popular support” (William Randolph Hearst, Jr.)
  2. adjective Coming into being or being created.

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  • Because in case you haven't noticed, the world as we know it is ending — politically, culturally, and, oh yes, economically — and a new one is aborning. —  Esquire.com Article Feed
  • He recently collaborated with Tony winner Duncan Sheik on the aborning musical Percussion People —  Playbill.com : News
  • It would explain why Weaver wants to incorporate human ethics into the aborning John Henry, despite her bloodthirsty ways.
  • A new order, in which Wall Street plays a diminished role and Washington a larger one, is aborning, but the process is painful and protracted …. —  The Freedom Fighter's Journal
  • Yet the clear similarity between Soviet legal restrictions on religion and what is aborning here has not produced any coverage comparing the two in the MSM that I have seen or heard so far. —  GetReligion
 

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