relinquishment

Example Sentences

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said during a relinquishment ceremony at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

From Reuters • Aug. 14, 2023

South Korea was a rare country that enforced special laws aimed at promoting adoptions, which allowed profit-driven agencies to manipulate records and bypass proper child relinquishment.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2022

Under ICWA, my father’s indigenous ancestry and his willingness to keep me would have made me unavailable for relinquishment.

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2022

It would also allow the State Lands Commission, the agency with oversight of those contracts, to negotiate a voluntary relinquishment of the leases by oil companies before the state takes action.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2022

“Fear,” the doctor said, “is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson