dereliction
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Tripoli's mayor, Abdel Hamid Karimeh, said the city had suffered long-term dereliction.
From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026
Its absence feels like a big miss or, less charitably, a dereliction of duty.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026
“It’s easy to blame me for the dereliction of duty that has been going on here for many, many years before I came into office,” she continued.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026
Federal law says that Fed officials can only be removed for "cause," which could be interpreted to mean malfeasance or dereliction of duty.
From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026
She felt that she couldn’t leave her job in the middle of the Reston crisis, that it would be a dereliction of her post.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Vocabulary lists containing dereliction
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