abdication

Example Sentences

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When Democratic-appointed commissioners declined to go to court to defend the legislative district maps they helped draw, their tactical abdication set the stage to tilt a piece of the state’s political landscape.

From Seattle Times

The couple was cut off from the monarchy following the abdication.

From Fox News

“To not schedule a hearing is a dereliction of duty and an abdication of congressional authority and responsibility.”

From Washington Times

Biden’s old boss presented his serial abdications as weary realism: “It’s not the job of the president of the United States to solve every problem in the Middle East.”

From Washington Post

That would be a moral abdication at exactly the wrong time.

From Washington Post