abdication

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It isn’t enough to be enraged about this national abdication; we need to build a plan to fix it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

The abdication, Max Kennedy said, is a terrible example for students.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

The works taken are of the late Queen Elizabeth II and of Margrethe II, who was Queen of Denmark until her abdication earlier this year.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2024

Lewis said he knew that some readers would view the enforced neutrality as an "abdication of responsibility" before painting it as a return to the paper's mission.

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2024

Wilhelm fled across the Dutch border to take refuge in neutral Holland, where he signed his formal abdication as king of Prussia and German emperor.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman