abrogation

Example Sentences

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I wouldn’t be surprised if Westside residents who lost everything try to recall the mayor for her supposed abrogation of duty.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025

Earlier this month, assembly elections were held in Jammu and Kashmir for the first time since the abrogation.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2024

“If the state chooses for a human being who to fall in love with,” he said, “that would be the greatest abrogation of our most basic rights.”

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2023

“There is no reason the law should analyze an abrogation of the right to exclude in one manner if it extends for 365 days, but in an entirely different manner if it lasts for 364.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2021

Exaggeration has no law, it is rather the abrogation of law; and the writer who adopts the method of exaggeration pays the price in losing all check upon himself.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh