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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

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

The issue was caught up in a mayoral campaign and a 2001 ballot measure calling for the Valley to secede from the city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 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

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

The population is fixed to the domain and goes with it; the domain is attached to the State, and secedes in the secession of the State.

From The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny by Orestes Augustus Brownson

Ethiopia lost access to them when Eritrea seceded in 1993.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Texas became a U.S. state in 1845 and seceded from the union to join the Confederacy at the start of the Civil War.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

And it was because of his White House dinner—at which there was no dinner, only “passed apps”—that 11 Southern states seceded from the union.

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

Though Lee had no love for secession or slavery, his home state was Virginia, which had recently seceded from the Union, and he could not lead troops against his home state.

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

A handful of townspeople now mutter about seceding from the local council area, echoing a widening harrumph of displeasure with the various layers of government in Britain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

He had heard talk of tariffs, of slave states and free ones, of a violent old man named John Brown, and during the past winter, of states seceding from the Union.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt