abdication
Example Sentences
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An absence and abdication of leadership has characterized her 3½ years as mayor.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
It isn’t enough to be enraged about this national abdication; we need to build a plan to fix it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025
The abdication, Max Kennedy said, is a terrible example for students.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
The works taken are of the late Queen Elizabeth II and of Margrethe II, who was Queen of Denmark until her abdication earlier this year.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2024
And by destruction I mean precisely the abdication by Americans of any effort really to be free.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
Vocabulary lists containing abdication
Vocabulary From the Ninth Democratic Debate, April 14, 2016
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