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

If a few countries abrogate the Non-Proliferation Treaty, others will follow suit.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 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

As the Court was being assembled, however, it was dismissed by the Governor, the chief judge banished to an 237adjoining island, and the Queen compelled herself to abrogate the ordinance.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von