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For more than 100 years, residents fought to keep it that way, once threatening to secede from California if addresses were imposed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2024

He was a leader of the Freedom County movement that sought to secede from Snohomish County in the late 1990s.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2024

Decades ago, her optical nerve had begun to secede from the lining of her left eye.

From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2024

Sikh Americans have wide-ranging opinions on whether Sikhs should secede from India.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

The boxers, under Jerry’s leadership, threatened to secede from the club and start their own.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Either Virginia secedes from the union, something that did not work out so well 150 years ago.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2017

If Scotland secedes, the UK itself could be the next to change what it calls itself.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 30, 2016

By a popular referendum attended by some 80 percent of eligible state voters, Maloney’s Texas secedes on April 1, 2013.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2013

It is a countdown to January 9th, the day a referendum is scheduled to decide whether the southern part of this country secedes from the north and becomes its own nation.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2010

Irish municipal bill 372 Church rates 373 Burdett secedes from the whig party 374 20 June.

From The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by George C. (George Charles) Brodrick

After Lincoln was elected president in 1860, seven Southern states seceded from the Union.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

In December, Israel became the first to recognise Somaliland's independence since it seceded from Somalia in 1991, drawing angry condemnation from the federal government in Mogadishu, even though it has been self-governing for 35 years.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

After a decades-long battle for independence, Eritrea officially seceded from Ethiopia in 1993, leaving the latter landlocked.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

Late 21st-century San Francisco: California has seceded from the United States, and robots serve humans like crypto money launderer Fritz Co, whose Burgers N More is a front.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025

Threatened by Lincoln’s stance against expanding slavery, South Carolina seceded in December.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

To pay the soldiers, the seceding government and its president, Jefferson Davis, printed reams of Confederate dollars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

South Sudan, the world's newest nation, gained independence in 2011 after seceding from Sudan.

From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2025

“Texas has talked about seceding for a long time,” Ms. Haley said.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024

A Latin inscription on the monument cites the Confederacy’s “Lost Cause” rationale for seceding.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 14, 2022

But they did hold on, and as the war trailed drearily on, vindictiveness toward the stubborn stand of the seceding states grew steadily more bitter in the North.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt