secede

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

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

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

A firm believer in the Union, Jackson rejected the idea that states could secede for any reason.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

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

Louisiana secedes from the Union, 13; temper of the people, ib.

From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Richard Taylor

Fifteen years earlier, civil war had broken out when 11 states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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

Southerners seceded to protect slavery and fought to preserve it.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2025

Eleven southern states seceded from the United States, forming the Confederate States of America.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

A handful of townspeople now mutter about seceding from the local council area, echoing a widening harrumph of displeasure with the various layers of government in Britain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

From BBC ● Apr. 5, 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

But they did hold on, and as the war trailed drearily on, vindictiveness toward the stubborn stand of the seceding states grew steadily more bitter in the North.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt