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He sought to create a selfless “New Man” and tried to abolish money.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Germany will raise its retirement age gradually beyond 67, abolish early retirement and expand compulsory pension contributions under a set of new recommendations backed by Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

The union also wanted Samsung to abolish a bonus cap of 50% of annual salaries and allocate 15% of annual operating profit to a bonus pool distributed to workers.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

The party says it would abolish business rates for pubs to drive footfall to High Streets, with further policies set to be announced in due course.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

Though this might have sometimes blurred the distinction, it did not abolish it.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2026

“He founded slave-free Georgia in 1733 and, 100 years later, England abolishes slavery,” followed by the U.S. in 1865, Thurmond said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

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

RIP’s model of buying debt at discount prices is especially attractive to donors because on average, every $1 donated abolishes about $100 in face value medical debt.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023

That the 13th Amendment relates only to slavery and involuntary servitude, which it abolishes.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll

Roosevelt, a football enthusiast who feared the game might be abolished, summoned leaders from the college football powerhouses of the day—Harvard, Yale and Princeton—to the White House and demanded reform.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

New Test captain Joe Root has abolished the midnight curfew imposed on the England team under predecessor Ben Stokes.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

It was abolished when Stokes took over as captain in 2022, only to then be reintroduced earlier this year.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Hichilema, a businessman who won office in 2021 on his sixth attempt, has pursued market-friendly reforms, abolished the death penalty and sought to restore investor confidence.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

He could not of course know—for he, Napoleon, was only now for the first time announcing it—that the name “Animal Farm” had been abolished.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

The NTA needs deep structural reform to address recurring failures, but abolishing it is not the answer, said M Jagadesh Kumar, former chairman of India's universities regulator.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

He also infuriated colleagues in the coalition government, the British press reported, proposing a stream of unconventional ideas: scrapping maternity leave, abolishing job centers, even buying cloud-bursting technology so Britain would have more sunshine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

On Sunday, a federal judge in Baton Rouge granted Duncan’s request for a temporary restraining order, declaring the bill abolishing the criminal court clerk position to be unconstitutional.

From Slate ● May 5, 2026

“They were respectful,” said Janerio Taylor, a longtime Minneapolis activist, who supports abolishing the police department but conceded respect for their efforts handling the scene and working to reduce crime in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

“I wrote the letter abolishing the positions, including my own.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield