abdication
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She regrouped with the left-wing bloc and parliament re-elected her prime minister five days later, making her Sweden's first woman head of government since the abdication of Queen Ulrika Eleonora in 1720.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Seeking an order for heavier indemnity costs to be made against the authority, the barrister accused some of its representatives of a "scandalous abdication of responsibilities".
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
That is both a terrible abdication of responsibility and a false application of principle that serves only the interests of the wicked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
Such a recognition is an abdication not only of basic human decency, but also of national interest and strategic sanity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025
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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