abrogate
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Did the attorney general really abrogate his duty to supervise Mr. Smith’s work?
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
While there was pressure to abrogate the Indus Waters Treaty - a key river water sharing agreement - India opted instead to withhold any data beyond treaty obligations, Mr Bisaria writes.
From BBC • May 2, 2025
Duterte took steps, which he later withdrew, to abrogate a key security agreement with the U.S. that allowed large numbers of American forces to enter the Philippines for combat exercises.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2023
Similarly, states cannot use a compact to abrogate valid national measures.
From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2020
To make void; to annul; to abrogate; applied chiefly and appropriately to establish laws, contracts, rites, customs and institutions; as to abolish laws by a repeal, actual or virtual.
From The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It by Helper, Hinton Rowan
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