abdicate

Any coach who says “I don’t want to know” where a transfer lives to escape accountability might want to start realizing an entire program can go down when they abdicate responsibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

It is that we will allow the creators of the software to abdicate human responsibility for the systems they choose to build and help them pull up the ladder to market access behind them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

In 2006, when a popular uprising forced the king to abdicate, Thapa was already a prominent figure in the pro-democracy movement and had been jailed several times for his role in street protests.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

Yet sometimes miracles happen, and Senates don’t entirely abdicate their constitutional advice and consent roles.

From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2025

Yet, in Florence’s heart tonight hatred and bitterness weighed like granite, pride refused to abdicate from the throne it had held so long.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

It may serve his interests by distracting and deflecting but abdicates presidential responsibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025

An eccentric Danish queen abdicates - will others follow?

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2024

There's a lot of speculation over who might take over in her stead as Lakshmi abdicates her throne.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2023

Japan's Emperor Akihito formally abdicates the throne at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo today.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2019

Napoleon abdicates and is banished to the island of Elba.

From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson

A few months later, faced with military reversals and urban unrest, Nicholas abdicated the throne.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

The plan is to invest in “everything our country has outsourced and abdicated over recent decades,” Combs says.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

Ayad Akhtar’s “McNeal,” which had its premiere last year at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater in a production starring Robert Downey Jr., failed precisely because it abdicated this responsibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2025

In recent years of flourishing disinformation ecosystems and broken social contracts, satirical journalism has taken up more than a bit of the work abdicated by legitimate outlets.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2025

“You done abdicated my girl,” she howled, “but I’ll git her back. You watch!”

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

Freedman said his ambition is to build a company that uses data and technology without abdicating its agencies’ creative and cultural expertise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

“If that’s true, what would prohibit Congress from just abdicating all responsibility to regulate foreign commerce—for that matter, declare war—to the president?”

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2025

Critics suggest police are abdicating decision-making about women's safety to an algorithm.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2025

"She is abdicating her duty, and this is something that she needs to decide, not a jury. It's a question of law, not a question of fact."

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2024

He wanted to lie down in this redolent field, curl up in the green womb in the dazzling aura of these mountains, growing warm and drowsy under the sun, abdicating all responsibilities—and sleep.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols