secede

It’s not that Greenlanders don’t want to secede from Denmark—they just don’t want to become a U.S. state in turn.

From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2025

In 1896, barely seven years after statehood, some Eastern Washington residents were already looking to secede from their western counterparts.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

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

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

In 1988, inside the roiling Soviet landscape, the enclave’s ethnic Armenian majority chose to secede from one Soviet republic, Azerbaijan, and unite with another, Armenia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

It retains the right to secede at will.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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

Q. Will the Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans still be eligible to play in the NFL once Texas secedes from the United States?

From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 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

Louisiana, La Salle in; extent of; French in; struggle for; Spanish; purchased; admitted; boundary; secedes; reconstructs government; readmitted.

From A School History of the United States by McMaster, John Bach

“The past and present were endlessly intermingled,” Ms. Phillips recalls: “Every kid in town knew that West Virginia had seceded from Virginia to stand for the Union.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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

Then two days later, before South Sudan’s Olympic basketball debut, the national anthem of Sudan, the country from which South Sudan seceded, was played.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024

The states that seceded felt that maintaining the institution of slavery was essential to their economy and they were willing to leave the Union rather than outlaw slavery.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

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, 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

“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

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