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The address issue has long been contentious in artsy Carmel-by-the-Sea, where residents once threatened to secede from California if they were forced to number their homes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

It’s not that Greenlanders don’t want to secede from Denmark—they just don’t want to become a U.S. state in turn.

From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2025

In 1896, barely seven years after statehood, some Eastern Washington residents were already looking to secede from their western counterparts.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

Sikh Americans have wide-ranging opinions on whether Sikhs should secede from India.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

They want to be able to secede but they don’t want anyone to want them to.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

Either Virginia secedes from the union, something that did not work out so well 150 years ago.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2017

If Scotland secedes, the UK itself could be the next to change what it calls itself.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 30, 2016

By a popular referendum attended by some 80 percent of eligible state voters, Maloney’s Texas secedes on April 1, 2013.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2013

It is a countdown to January 9th, the day a referendum is scheduled to decide whether the southern part of this country secedes from the north and becomes its own nation.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2010

October 15th.—Bavarian army secedes and joins the Austrians.

From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Henry Foljambe Hall

After Lincoln was elected president in 1860, seven Southern states seceded from the Union.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Eritrea officially seceded from Ethiopia in 1993 - but later fought a deadly border war.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026

In December, Israel became the first to recognise Somaliland's independence since it seceded from Somalia in 1991, drawing angry condemnation from the federal government in Mogadishu, even though it has been self-governing for 35 years.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

In 1861, two weeks after South Carolina seceded from the Union, Morris Jacob Raphall, the Orthodox rabbi of B’nai Jeshurun synagogue in New York, gave a sermon proclaiming that the Hebrew Bible endorsed slavery.

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2025

They constantly shifted configuration, some expanding by swarming over their neighbors, others imploding when their constituent villages seceded and joined other polities.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

To pay the soldiers, the seceding government and its president, Jefferson Davis, printed reams of Confederate dollars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

South Sudan is the world's newest nation, after seceding from Sudan in 2011.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025

A Latin inscription on the monument cites the Confederacy’s “Lost Cause” rationale for seceding.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 14, 2022

Secession: Voters in San Bernardino County will soon get to say whether they want the county to study options that include seceding from the state, The Associated Press reports.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022

“Secession means the Southerners are breaking away, or seceding, from our present Union of thirty-three states to form their own confederacy of sorts.”

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan