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
• The use of force is the abdication of reason.
  — Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
• The abdication set the monarchy on a new course.
  — ABC News, 22 Feb. 2026
• Leaving it to the appellate courts is an abdication of their role.
  — George Brauchler, The Denver Post, 14 June 2020
• And the failure to do so is not just an abdication of one of our most basic duties owed to our people.
  — Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 16 Feb. 2026
• An exit without an entry is an abdication of your duty as founder.
  — Ken Polk, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• 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
• The legislative branch has been engaged in a steady abdication of its duties.
  — Blair McClendon, The New Republic, 19 Jan. 2021
• Grand Duke Jean had been on the throne for 36 years before his abdication.
  — Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 25 Dec. 2024
• Trump may call it restraint, but enabling land theft is abdication—not diplomacy.
  — Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
• For Johnson, what an abdication of duty to the taxpayers of this city.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
• 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
• But while the impact of Edward’s abdication lingered for years, the crisis reached a crescendo in a few days.
  — ABC News, 21 Feb. 2026
• To pretend that a national tragedy was a personal villainy is a form of escapism and moral abdication.
  — Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
• 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 abdication was considerable, and the potential for abuse was great.
  — James Santel, The Atlantic, 8 May 2025
• Wiener understood that the whirlwind would come not from malevolent machines but from human abdication.
  — Deb Roy, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2026
• Voluntary abdication has a precedent in the country.
  — Staff Author, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
• 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
• But diplomacy doesn’t mean total abdication of duty.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 15 May 2026
• Stepping away from that life, even for a relatively small chunk in the grand scheme of things, isn’t an abdication of adulthood, but an investment in a life worth living.
  — Dj Didonna, Time, 13 July 2026
• Even the reports of the Orinda bust doubled as both a coronation and premature abdication.
  — John Semley, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2025
• 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
• On the other hand, standing idly by while a kid makes concerning choices can feel like an abdication of parental responsibility.
  — Russell Shaw, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
• The queen, 86, cited health concerns among her reasons for stepping down in the shocking speech announcing her abdication.
  — Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 20 May 2026
• Not since the abdication crisis of 1936 has there been such a public casting aside of a senior British royal.
  — Max Foster, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
• And an abdication of your duty to hold ALL public officials to account.
  — Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
• Kelly framed Kobach’s decision to sign onto the consent decree request as an abdication of duty.
  — Matthew Kelly updated June 25, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2026
• The abdication crisis was transfixing the nation during the week Tolkien was writing the Hobbit blurb.
  — John Garth, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
• This led to Russian Czar Alexander's abdication four days later and helped pave the way for women to gain the right to vote in Russia.
  — William Lambers, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2025