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The last time the city took up a large-scale update of the charter was in 1999, amid an effort by some San Fernando Valley civic leaders to secede from Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

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

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

The boxers, under Jerry’s leadership, threatened to secede from the club and start their own.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

To recognize an insurgent as a belligerent is not to recognize him as fully the equal of the government from which he secedes.

From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine

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

“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

“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

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

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

He had heard talk of tariffs, of slave states and free ones, of a violent old man named John Brown, and during the past winter, of states seceding from the Union.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt