abdication
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The abdication of curatorial responsibility here might have been at least partially forgivable if the show were stuffed with so much engaging work that finding a unifying through-line proved nearly impossible.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
Regardless, Borkowski is clear on the strategy - Gimme A Hug, like the album, isn't a response track, it's an abdication from the fight.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2025
Lewis said he knew that some readers would view the enforced neutrality as an "abdication of responsibility" before painting it as a return to the paper's mission.
From Salon • Oct. 25, 2024
Some days he fears they’re too late to make a difference, but more often, he realizes that such thinking is an abdication of responsibility.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024
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
Vocabulary lists containing abdication
Vocabulary From the Ninth Democratic Debate, April 14, 2016
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