dereliction
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If Yam is obviously Albee and “Dilemma, Dereliction and Death” a wry substitute for “The Zoo Story,” who is Fam?
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2022
“Dilemma, Dereliction and Death,” Yam reminds him, further pointing out that it opened four months ago.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2022
He turned his PhD into Dereliction of Duty, a seminal book on the US military failure in Vietnam.
From The Guardian • May 28, 2018
Dereliction of duty: Lynn Swann said he “had not talked with Andy Enfield about how USC would handle players who could potentially be ruled ineligible by the NCAA.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2017
Dereliction of principle, in these circumstances, was something like an amiable, a pardonable weakness.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 05 by Edgeworth, Maria
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