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Al-Hijri and many Druze previously conciliatory toward Al-Sharaa were unconvinced and demanded to secede.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2025

Decades ago, her optical nerve had begun to secede from the lining of her left eye.

From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2024

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

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

The post, which opens with sentences mirroring the Declaration of Independence, makes clear that the proposal is to secede from California and become an independent U.S. state rather than secede from the United States.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 17, 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

Secessions.—Whoever secedes from us offends not us, perhaps, but certainly our adherents.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In 1860, though, an election nearly destroyed the nation when Abraham Lincoln became president and, in response, 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

Southerners seceded to protect slavery and fought to preserve it.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2025

During the Civil War, the mountain state seceded from Virginia and joined the Union.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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

“We are competing in a global marketplace, and if we don’t make sure we are creating and building the technology of the future, we are seceding our leadership and mobility in transportation,” Ms. Dingell said.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 5, 2023

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