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Recent Examples of abdication
Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments also reveal another dimension of compliance: the abdication of responsibility.
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Dr. Sunita Sah, TIME, 4 Jan. 2025
To pretend that a national tragedy was a personal villainy is a form of escapism and moral abdication.
—John R. MacArthur, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
Waiting for innocent citizens to be investigated — at great emotional, financial and reputational harm — would be an unacceptable abdication of Biden’s constitutional duty to preserve the rule of law.
—Pierce O'Donnell, The Mercury News, 12 Dec. 2024
The last time around, the naive abdication of the requirements of national defense made reviving the arsenal of democracy on a short timeline unnecessarily difficult.
—Mitch McConnell, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2024
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Dr. Sunita Sah, TIME, 4 Jan. 2025
To pretend that a national tragedy was a personal villainy is a form of escapism and moral abdication.
—John R. MacArthur, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
Waiting for innocent citizens to be investigated — at great emotional, financial and reputational harm — would be an unacceptable abdication of Biden’s constitutional duty to preserve the rule of law.
—Pierce O'Donnell, The Mercury News, 12 Dec. 2024
The last time around, the naive abdication of the requirements of national defense made reviving the arsenal of democracy on a short timeline unnecessarily difficult.
—Mitch McConnell, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for abdication
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At Marathon, Elliott helped facilitate the addition of a new director, transition to a new CEO, closure of the gap in per barrel EBITDA with VLO, retirement of 50% of its shares outstanding since 2021, and sale of the Speedway retail operation for $17 billion in after-tax cash proceeds.—
Kenneth Squire,
CNBC,
15 Feb. 2025
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Zoom in: Energy and Commerce has undergone something of an energy policy brain drain in recent years with retirements and electoral churn.—
Daniel Moore,
Axios,
15 Feb. 2025
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O'Toole paused the deferred resignation program last week.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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On Monday alone, five different judges took action that favored challenges to Mr. Trump's directives on birthright citizenship, a freeze on federal funding, cuts to how medical research grants are funded and his deferred resignation program.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
11 Feb. 2025
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But there's little question that President Donald Trump's public comments appearing to accommodate Russia's President Vladimir Putin over a potential Ukraine war peace deal are a major departure from Joe Biden's confrontational stance against Putin.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
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Breaking New Ground in Healthcare Parallel Health’s approach represents a significant departure from traditional healthcare models.—
WWD,
WWD,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Abdication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abdication. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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