abrogate

Example Sentences

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Conversely, the department correctly found that the statute did not abrogate long-established privileges, including deliberative-process privilege, work-product privilege and attorney-client privilege.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

While there was pressure to abrogate the Indus Waters Treaty - a key river water sharing agreement - India opted instead to withhold any data beyond treaty obligations, Mr Bisaria writes.

From BBC • May 2, 2025

She declined to cite Windsor, Obergefell, or any other Supreme Court decisions that supersede and abrogate Lofton.

From Slate • Aug. 22, 2023

Duterte took steps, which he later withdrew, to abrogate a key security agreement with the U.S. that allowed large numbers of American forces to enter the Philippines for combat exercises.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2023

The will of the artist and his artistic effect constitute a force which may abrogate the laws of cause and effect, or of precedence and subsequence in time.

From Literature in the Elementary School by MacClintock, Porter Lander