as in to resign
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Sinagra said that Brooksby resigned as a consequence of the complaints, but disagreed with them.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026 -
Recently, Joe Kent, the former head of the National Counterterrorism Center, who resigned earlier this month in opposition to the war, went on Tucker Carlson’s show.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2026
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The agency waived age limits for new recruits, relaxed its vetting process, and decreased the training period for incoming officers.—
Oriana van Praag,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
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The companies are waiving fees and fare differences, as long as the new ticket is for the same cabin level.—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
28 Mar. 2026
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Sorokin was locked in from the drop of the puck, denying Colin Blackwell on a shorthanded breakaway 10 minutes in and making a handful of other 10-bell saves on quality scoring chances in the first period alone.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Omar, 38, eventually married Hirsi legally in a 2018 ceremony before the two divorced after it was alleged that Omar was having an affair with her chief fundraiser Tim Mynett, who denied the claim.—
Emily Hallas,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Mar. 2026
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My mother disavowed her first tears.—
Han Ong,
New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2026
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Putin’s Kiss — that portrays her as Kremlin youth icon turned aspiring Western liberal who came to publicly disavow the Russian president.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
6 Mar. 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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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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Everyone is looking for the next Sam Darnold, and there might not be a better candidate than Jones — the 2021 first-round pick disowned by a team in the AFC East only to spend a year with the 49ers before blossoming elsewhere.—
Zack Rosenblatt,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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Should the chain of citizenship break somewhere along the line, however, where an ancestor renounced their citizenship, rights to Canadian citizenship end there.—
Vivian Song,
CNN Money,
30 Mar. 2026
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The German Jews were the founders of American Reform Judaism, which renounced dietary laws, bar mitzvahs, and Zionism.—
Adam Kirsch,
The Atlantic,
23 Mar. 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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And Austria, for many years, disclaimed responsibility for its role in the Holocaust.—
Cary Lowe,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Demit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demit. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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