as in abandonment
the act of abandoning
the soldiers were imprisoned for desertion of their posts
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Recent Examples of desertion
The head of one brigade’s legal service who is in charge of processing desertion cases and forwarding them to law enforcement said he’s had many of them.
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Samya Kullab and Volodymyr Yurchuk, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024
On the other side of the screen, Ukrainians die, lose territory, see apartment blocks reduced to rubble, consider desertion, and watch the backbone of their western support dissolve.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Feb. 2025
During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, desertions and courts-martial were rare, even after years of stalemate.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The Ukrainian military is also struggling with desertions and low morale, and due to the government’s reluctance to draft young people into combat roles, the average age of its troops is around 40.
—Joshua Keating, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Samya Kullab and Volodymyr Yurchuk, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024
On the other side of the screen, Ukrainians die, lose territory, see apartment blocks reduced to rubble, consider desertion, and watch the backbone of their western support dissolve.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Feb. 2025
During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, desertions and courts-martial were rare, even after years of stalemate.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The Ukrainian military is also struggling with desertions and low morale, and due to the government’s reluctance to draft young people into combat roles, the average age of its troops is around 40.
—Joshua Keating, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
See All Example Sentences for desertion
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