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Tuesday's ballot paper asked residents to respond either yes or no to the statement: "I support Piddington seeking to secede from the United Kingdom and pursuing self-determination."

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

For more than 100 years, residents fought to keep it that way, once threatening to secede from California if addresses were imposed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2024

He was a leader of the Freedom County movement that sought to secede from Snohomish County in the late 1990s.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2024

With Belgian support, the mineral-rich Katanga province was encouraged by Belgian mining interests to secede, and the white-dominated Force Publique, the Belgian colonial army, revolted.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

Katanga had once tried to secede, after all.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

Texas secedes from Mexico, 1836, McMaster, 320-322; Hero Tales, 173-181.

From A Short History of the United States by Edward Channing

Ethiopia lost access to them when Eritrea seceded in 1993.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

And it was because of his White House dinner—at which there was no dinner, only “passed apps”—that 11 Southern states seceded from the union.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 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

Late 21st-century San Francisco: California has seceded from the United States, and robots serve humans like crypto money launderer Fritz Co, whose Burgers N More is a front.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025

In 1784 some of those settlers, led by John Sevier, seceded from North Carolina in the hope of creating a fourteenth state, which they named Franklin.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

In early 1861, Clay was in Washington, D.C., where he organized a volunteer company to help defend the city against attack from seceding states.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

South Sudan is an oil-rich nation that became the world's newest country in 2011 after seceding from Sudan.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025

In the fourth and third centuries BCE, plebeians won more concessions by again seceding from the patrician state.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

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

From Washington Times ● Sep. 14, 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