renunciation
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Humanity could recover its moral bearings and pursue the abolition of nuclear weapons and the renunciation of war, or accept the inevitability that such man-made forces would ultimately abolish most or all of us.
From Salon • Aug. 14, 2025
A patchwork of statutes and treaties already offered about two-thirds of Native Americans citizenship, sometimes in exchange for land allotments that fractured reservations, gestures of assimilation, military service and even the renunciation of tribal traditions.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2024
“Songs of Surrender” is an act of renunciation, drastically scaling down songs that once strove to shake entire stadiums.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2023
A day before her renunciation ceremony, the family had organised a huge celebratory procession in Surat.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2023
Her answer was also, of course, a means of renunciation, itself a denial of everything else I wasn’t offering.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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100 SAT words Beginning with "R"
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