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

It also alleged that the university’s “cowardly abdication of its duty to ensure unfettered access to UCLA’s educational opportunities” violated the students’ freedom of speech and other rights.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 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

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

Wilhelm fled across the Dutch border to take refuge in neutral Holland, where he signed his formal abdication as king of Prussia and German emperor.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman