abjure

Example Sentences

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If there was an abiding theme across X’s work and life, it was the attempt to subvert a fixed self, choosing to cycle through artistic personas and abjure her personal history.

From New York Times

Which is not to say all violence is abjured.

From New York Times

It triggered restrictions on where people could go and when, while ushering in mandates to wear face coverings and abjure close contact with fellow humans.

From Los Angeles Times

Industrious, credulous, laudable, avaricious, abjure and sanctity — all could apply, in their way, to various aspects of the Democratic candidates’ campaigns for the party nomination.

From New York Times

Constitutionally, the role of the monarch is to keep his or her mouth shut, to abjure what Elizabeth, in “The Queen,” calls “the sheer joy of being partial.”

From New York Times