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In 1833, the UK parliament passed a law to abolish slavery in most of the British Empire.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

He also has pledged to abolish the Department of Motor Vehicles and reduce registration fees to $73.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

We absolutely need to abolish the concept that going to a concert alone is any kind of abnormal or undesirable behavior.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

Editor’s note: In this Future View, students discuss whether universities should abolish fraternities and sororities to protect students.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Garfield also pushed for passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery, a change in the Constitution favored by Lincoln and the Republican Party.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

"So if there were laws in our statute book in 1994, the constitution explicitly says they remain in force until parliament repeals them, abolishes them or changes them," he adds.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Some of this friction is inevitable; care tasks are cyclical, after all, and no system abolishes effort entirely.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2026

The new version of the constitution also declares Uzbekistan a "social state" with increased welfare obligations, abolishes death penalty, establishes greater personal legal protection, and allows non-farming land ownership.

From Reuters ● Apr. 27, 2023

Musk creates an “official” label for high-profile Twitter accounts, and abolishes it hours later.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2022

It abolishes all sympathy, all communion between the Father and the children.

From Modern Substitutes for Christianity by Pearson McAdam Muir

Modernity hasn’t abolished the olfactory world, but it has changed how we react to it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Italy abolished the death penalty and prohibits extradition to countries where a defendant may face the death penalty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The program comes days after the Supreme Court abolished limits on the purchase of rural land by foreigners.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

An attempt to force a referendum on whether an elected mayor should be abolished has failed.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Black told Gold that the Soviet government had abolished private property and was making all the decisions about what the economy should produce, and how goods should be distributed.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

Unite said NatWest was abolishing its "remote first" employment category, which allows 13,497 workers to attend the office around twice a month, and requiring 17,272 hybrid workers to increase their office attendance.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The other barrier to abolishing fraternities is their popularity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

When Watters pressed him about abolishing ICE, he did not surrender the moral argument or get stuck in a defensive loop.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026

It recommended abolishing a scheme that allows people to retire early at 63, and expanding compulsory pension contributions to include civil servants and self-employed workers.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

Those spineless types who talk about abolishing the apostrophe are missing the point, and the pun is very much intended.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author