secession

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Indulge a certain inner calm, then, when watching Canada’s secession politics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Pannun is affiliated with a New York-based group called Sikhs for Justice that advocates for the secession of Punjab, a northern Indian state with a large Sikh population.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

Downtown #Aden, where crowds have been calling for secession from #Yemen and solidarity with STC leader Aidarous Al Zubaidi.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026

Similarly, virtually every historian of the Civil War knows that slavery was the moving force for secession which led to the Civil War.

From Slate • Sep. 24, 2025

It was not only because secession was just, considering all that the Igbo had endured, but because of the possibility Biafra held for him.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie