abdication
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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
My organization, UltraViolet, has been one of the leaders in the campaign to hold Meta accountable for its total abdication of the duty to protect users on its platform.
From Salon • Sep. 24, 2025
The works taken are of the late Queen Elizabeth II and of Margrethe II, who was Queen of Denmark until her abdication earlier this year.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 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
It is the abdication from option, the act of betrayal itself.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing abdication
Vocabulary From the Ninth Democratic Debate, April 14, 2016
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