abdication
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It’s about inertia and abdication, not solutions, and while I don’t entirely love this strange comedy, I’m giddy that it’s lurched into existence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
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
But now his abdication moment has arrived, a year earlier than planned.
From BBC ● May 23, 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
After all, Goddard promised his disciples anything a human heart could desire, in exchange for the complete abdication of one’s conscience.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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Vocabulary From the Ninth Democratic Debate, April 14, 2016
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