abdication

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

Police testified that the family had agreed to remove Card’s guns, but the commission said that leaving this to his family “was an abdication of law enforcement’s responsibility.”

From Seattle Times • May 15, 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