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

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

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

From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2024

We have heard them threaten to secede so often that I formed an enthusiastic organization— The American Friends for Texas Secession.

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

Arkansas, becomes territory; admitted; secedes; Confederates in; reconstruction; readmitted.

From A School History of the United States by John Bach McMaster

Ethiopia, the world's most populous landlocked nation, lost access to them when Eritrea seceded in 1993.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

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

“Down south, Katanga Province. The new nation of Katanga, I should say. Did you know Katanga has seceded from the Congo?”

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 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

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