abortively

• “Apparently on behest of Washington in July 2008 Zardari government abortively tried to put the powerful military-run spy agency, Inter Services”

  Capitulating Terms of the $4.5 Billion US aid to Pakistan

• “While we might take solace in our own anthropic prejudice, dismissing the nonsensical communiqués of such chatbots as nothing more than computerized gobbledygook, we might unwittingly miss a chance to study firsthand the babytalk of an embryonic sentience, struggling abortively to awaken from its own phylum of oblivion.”

  Poetic Machines 05 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

• “Recently signing to star in the abortively named Due Date alongside saving-grace Robert Downey Jr., Galifianakis is currently in talks for Funny Story from Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.”

  Casting: Zach Galifianakis in It’s Kind of a Funny Story; Nicolas Cage Explains (Disses?) The Green Hornet | /Film

• “As we talked — about September 11, the war in Iraq, her time in the Senate, and (briefly, abortively) her husband — she showed little trace of the coldness that has long been ascribed to her.”

  Take Two: Hillary's Choice

• “You mention in the piece that you spoke (“briefly, abortively”) about Bill.”

  Candidate Hillary

• “I think you'll find that Eggy -- Mr. Edgworth -- was helping with inquiries, albeit abortively, all of Sunday and Sunday night.”

  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

• “It was a little trickier to find her most recent online purchases-Selena abortively tried Amazon. com and Reel. com before finding a CD store with an account set up in Gilly's name.”

  Salem Falls

• “This possibility was later supported by observations with abortively transformed cells, which behave as transformed only for several generations after infection, but then return to normality (8).”

  Renato Dulbecco - Nobel Lecture

• “It ended abortively, and permitted me to continue with perfect impunity to give in letters to the _Times_ evidence I was debarred from giving in”

  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent

• “Thus abortively collapsed the last effort of Philip III.”

  England under the Tudors

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