How to Use abdication in a Sentence

abdication

noun

• But there was the whisper of moral abdication in his words as well.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023
• But the rest of my colleagues, the 99.99 percent, are condemned to accept this abdication of our rights.
  — Boris Sollazzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2023
• Leaving it to the appellate courts is an abdication of their role.
  — George Brauchler, The Denver Post, 14 June 2020
• Elizabeth’s path to the throne was hastened by the abdication of her uncle and the early death of her father, King George VI.
  — Washington Post, 31 May 2022
• After the abdication, when her father came to the throne, there was a huge lack of respect for the Windsor family.
  — Rachel Burchfield, Glamour, 21 Dec. 2020
• The legislative branch has been engaged in a steady abdication of its duties.
  — Blair McClendon, The New Republic, 19 Jan. 2021
• To do anything less would be an abdication of my mission to help move Atlanta forward, not backward.
  — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, ajc, 21 Oct. 2021
• The irony, of course, is that at no point in this scene does West’s Charles actually advocate for his mother’s abdication.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 9 Nov. 2022
• The abdication crisis was transfixing the nation during the week Tolkien was writing the Hobbit blurb.
  — John Garth, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
• At a mere 18 years old, the teenager will then be named first in line for the Danish throne following the abdication of his grandmother, Queen Margrethe—and, in the process, will become one of the youngest crown princes in the modern day.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2024
• Prince Joachim of Denmark will attend the abdication of his mother Queen Margrethe without his wife and children.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2024
• After his abdication, he was named Duke of Windsor and married Simpson in 1937.
  — Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 1 June 2022
• How is delegating tasks to his own agencies some kind of weak-willed abdication?
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 18 June 2024
• Their wedding took place in France in June 1937, just seven months after Edward's abdication.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 19 Nov. 2022
• The coronation of George VI took place five months after the abdication took legal effect, on the same day originally set for his brother.
  — Jennifer Algoo, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Apr. 2023
• Calling the cops is in effect a cop-out, an abdication of universities’ role as clearinghouses of debate and ideas.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2024
• This abdication of leadership leaves the ball in the court of major developing countries, such as India, Indonesia, and South Africa, to forge a new approach.
  — Kelly Sims Gallagher, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
• Máxima became queen upon the abdication of her mother-in-law, Beatrix, in 2013.
  — Town & Country, 7 May 2023
• Ministers and church leaders, as with the 1936 abdication crisis, opposed the princess marrying a divorced man.
  — Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2022
• Lawyers and activists protested, calling the maritime regime a wholesale abdication of human rights doctrine.
  — Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
• This is a serious abdication of responsibility by both the Senate and the House.
  — Gail Lightfoot, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2024
• Returning with the first four episodes of its concluding, sixth season, the show could provoke a different abdication crisis.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
• Benedict’s abdication ultimately looked prescient, given the CEO-like demands of the job and Benedict’s frailty.
  — Chico Harlan, Stefano Pitrelli, Marisa Iati, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2022
• Still, to me, is just an abdication of complex and intelligent art history.
  — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2020
• Part of this attitude owed to his uncertainty as to whether the abdication of the Communist Party would necessarily be a good thing.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
• That abdication, and Francis’s subsequent election, led to a decade-long coexistence, by turns warm and uneasy.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2023
• The emperor of Japan also performs Shinto rituals yearly for a good harvest and at the time of his enthronement – and, sometimes, abdication – on behalf of the nation.
  — Kaitlyn Ugoretz, The Conversation, 18 July 2022
• Margrethe's abdication came as a surprise Even the prime minister was unaware of the queen’s intentions until right before the announcement.
  — Jan M. Olsen, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2024
• Advertisement Buckingham Palace had kept its files on Edward and the abdication from scholars and others.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
• Edward and Wallis struggled financially after the abdication, having been cut off from the monarchy and having no source of income.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 19 July 2021

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024