as in to resign
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Around the time the superalignment team was dissolved, its leaders, Sutskever and Leike, resigned.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026 -
Union County Commissioner Gary Sides resigned from the Board of County Commissioners Monday, creating a vacancy local leaders will need to fill in the coming weeks.—
Nora O'Neill,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Apr. 2026
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The goal was originally waived off due to his stick touching the puck above the cross bar.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
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That game will feature the return of longtime Rapids Homegrown Sam Vines, a left back who the club waived the day before the season started.—
Braidon Nourse,
Denver Post,
4 Apr. 2026
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For certain great artists, Meis believes, the creative act is a safe harbor where life’s pressures, exigencies, and calamities aren’t so much denied or resolved as reimagined as pictorial dramas.—
Jed Perl,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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Judge Antonio Arzola denied the request for a standard bond, citing probable cause, and issued an elevated $5,000 bond.—
Nikiya Carrero,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026
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Although Ye’s appearance headlining the festival had been controversial since it was announced last week, and the mayor of London had disavowed it, the furor took on more steam Sunday after Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned Ye’s appearance in a statement to the British newspaper the Sun.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
7 Apr. 2026
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Tehran has disavowed the administration’s characterization of negotiations.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
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Even the closest readers of the post could trouble themselves wondering if Damsky’s words implied something more than a call for members of that group to voluntarily abjure their own identity.—
Conor Friedersdorf,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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The foreigners, almost without exception, refuse to formally abjure Christianity, though that is one way to gain liberty.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025
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That candidate, Bushra Amiwala, disowned the support and condemned the ad, widely seen as an attempt to siphon voters from another young progressive, Kat Abughazaleh.—
David Daley,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2026
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The same fiber that the broader industry is scrambling to disown is also winding deeper, tighter—and, indeed, faster—into the Chinese economy.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
12 Mar. 2026
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If an ancestor renounced citizenship, rights to Canadian citizenship end there.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Returning to the guitars that characterized the band’s earliest work without renouncing their latter-day synths, MacFarlane gives Graham’s ruminations an urgent tenderness.—
Stephen Thomas Erlewine,
Pitchfork,
31 Mar. 2026
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Another is that whoever’s chosen should disclaim under oath loyalty to anyone or anything other than the Constitution.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2026
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All three opening bids in the 2028 ideas primary lead by disclaiming any desire to raise taxes on the middle class.—
Editorial Board,
Washington Post,
10 Mar. 2026
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