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Tuesday's ballot paper asked residents to respond either yes or no to the statement: "I support Piddington seeking to secede from the United Kingdom and pursuing self-determination."

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

The last time the city took up a large-scale update of the charter was in 1999, amid an effort by some San Fernando Valley civic leaders to secede from Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

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

Katanga had once tried to secede, after all.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

Soon as Tennessee secedes, I shall be safe enough.

From Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge

Ethiopia, the world's most populous landlocked nation, lost access to them when Eritrea seceded in 1993.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Only seven states actually seceded under Buchanan; Lewis and Clark had nothing to do with the Oregon Trail, which is where they say they’re going.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 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

In 1861, two weeks after South Carolina seceded from the Union, Morris Jacob Raphall, the Orthodox rabbi of B’nai Jeshurun synagogue in New York, gave a sermon proclaiming that the Hebrew Bible endorsed slavery.

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2025

“Down south, Katanga Province. The new nation of Katanga, I should say. Did you know Katanga has seceded from the Congo?”

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

In early 1861, Clay was in Washington, D.C., where he organized a volunteer company to help defend the city against attack from seceding states.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

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

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025

“We are competing in a global marketplace, and if we don’t make sure we are creating and building the technology of the future, we are seceding our leadership and mobility in transportation,” Ms. Dingell said.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 5, 2023

Secession: Voters in San Bernardino County will soon get to say whether they want the county to study options that include seceding from the state, The Associated Press reports.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022

“Secession means the Southerners are breaking away, or seceding, from our present Union of thirty-three states to form their own confederacy of sorts.”

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan