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the couple's sudden abnegation of life in the fast lane for work as missionaries stunned everyone
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The feats, the ecstasies, the prostrations and abnegations.
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James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
The explicit and quasi-religious abnegation of the right to violent self-defense put the national committee at odds with one of its key allies during the Saturday march: Black Lives Matter.
—Samantha Eyler, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2017
Is that an abnegation of interviewer responsibility?
—David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
In the latter’s rewrite of the Lancelot fable, the abducted Guinevere was elevated to a glamorous ice queen commanding knightly self-abnegation.
—Tina Brown, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
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James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
The explicit and quasi-religious abnegation of the right to violent self-defense put the national committee at odds with one of its key allies during the Saturday march: Black Lives Matter.
—Samantha Eyler, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2017
Is that an abnegation of interviewer responsibility?
—David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
In the latter’s rewrite of the Lancelot fable, the abducted Guinevere was elevated to a glamorous ice queen commanding knightly self-abnegation.
—Tina Brown, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
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“Abnegation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abnegation. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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