secession

Example Sentences

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I turned that word secession around on my tongue for a while, then tossed the pin aside and picked up my Chicago Press & Tribune.

From Literature

"To the uninformed American listener, the ongoing talks between Denmark and Greenland might have been construed as if Greenland's secession from Denmark was imminent," said Greenland specialist Mikaela Engell.

From Barron's

"The public mobilization we see in Catalonia inspires us," she told AFP, referring to the northeastern region of Spain that mounted a secession bid in 2017.

From Barron's

But the Whigs dissolved as a party almost a full decade before Southern secession, and the political imbalance in the country only got worse.

From Salon

Two years later, he was sent to Nigeria to cover the civil war that followed the secession of the south-eastern region of Biafra.

From BBC