abdication
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He became king of Scotland in the cradle, following the abdication of his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
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
Poet's Neuk said the land - at the corner of Greyfriars Garden and St Mary's Place - was gifted to the Fife town by Queen Mary prior to her abdication in 1567.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2025
Sarah Binder, a political science professor at George Washington University, told The Washington Post that such a move would be “an absolute abdication of their constitutional power.”
From Salon • Nov. 15, 2024
It is the abdication from option, the act of betrayal itself.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Vocabulary From the Ninth Democratic Debate, April 14, 2016
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