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He sought to create a selfless “New Man” and tried to abolish money.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Lebanon's parliament has voted to abolish the death penalty, a move that would make it the first country in the Middle East to formally end capital punishment.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

The goal isn’t to abolish remote work, but to recognize that company has value.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

These tolls provided up to two-thirds of the kingdom’s annual income; it took an international trade conference to finally abolish them in 1857.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

The valiant efforts to abolish slavery and Jim Crow and to achieve greater racial equality have brought about significant changes in the legal framework of American society—new “rules of the game,” so to speak.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

The new version of the constitution also declares Uzbekistan a "social state" with increased welfare obligations, abolishes death penalty, establishes greater personal legal protection, and allows non-farming land ownership.

From Reuters ● Apr. 27, 2023

RIP’s model of buying debt at discount prices is especially attractive to donors because on average, every $1 donated abolishes about $100 in face value medical debt.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023

The new law erodes the effects of single family zoning, he said, "but it in no way overrides or abolishes it."

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2021

Brous called for “a new America that finally abolishes the heresy of white supremacy and enlists all of us in dismantling racism and lifting up a theology of radical equality.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2021

The natural distinction of capacity which society abolishes by the social equality of wages.

From Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory by Ernst Viktor Zenker

The elections were the first to be held under Kazakhstan's new constitution, which abolished the senate in favour of a new unicameral legislature and reset term limits that would have otherwise been imposed on Tokayev.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

Roosevelt, a football enthusiast who feared the game might be abolished, summoned leaders from the college football powerhouses of the day—Harvard, Yale and Princeton—to the White House and demanded reform.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Murrill told lawmakers last year that defending the state against these claims consumes an enormous amount of time and resources and that the fund should be abolished altogether.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

Anas Sarwar is pressed on his decision to join the House of Lords after previously saying it should be abolished.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

The North Carolina government—half of which crowded into Garrison’s dining room that night—purchased existing slaves from farmers at favorable rates, just as Great Britain had done when it abolished slavery decades ago.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

An amendment abolishing slavery was passed by Congress in January 1865.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026

He also infuriated colleagues in the coalition government, the British press reported, proposing a stream of unconventional ideas: scrapping maternity leave, abolishing job centers, even buying cloud-bursting technology so Britain would have more sunshine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

Britain transported an estimated three million African people across the Atlantic before abolishing the practice in the early 1800s.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026

It could even reach for a nuclear option: abolishing the draft altogether, and making incoming rookies free agents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

The United States and other Western nations demanded the abolishing of South Africa’s Draconian security laws, which allowed for detention without trial.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane