demitted

past tense of demit

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Verb
  • The same weekend, King resigned and Dudek, who was at home in his underwear watching MSNBC, got an email stating that the president of the United States had appointed him commissioner.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba resigned on Sunday, bowing to internal party pressure after a poor performance in July legislative elections.
    J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Mace's former fiancé denied the accusations.
    Zac Anderson, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Caracas has denied this repeatedly.
    Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • South to North And Civale, waived by the White Sox, simply went across town, from the South Side to the North, and pitched three scoreless innings to help the Cubs beat the Braves, 7-6, in 10 innings.
    Dan Schlossberg, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Sadowski, who is being held without bond, waived his extradition rights to be returned to Kansas, according to court documents filed in Harris County.
    Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Unlike formal speeches or parliamentary votes, a podcast answer can be easily downplayed or disowned.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Netanyahu has not disavowed his son’s comments.
    Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But the following morning, before ESPN went live, Mizuhara disavowed his earlier statements.
    DAVID AMSDEN, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Communist Party leaders dismissed the Tibetan leader’s Strasbourg proposal in 1988, in which the Dalai Lama relinquished the demand for full independence and instead proposed genuine autonomy for Tibet under Chinese sovereignty.
    Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
  • She had been relinquished by her owner to another shelter for chronically attacking her own tail.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Eventually, however, Lowell’s ideas were discredited—Schiaparelli, once an ally, renounced them—and the world moved on.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Beijing has never renounced the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control.
    Karen Lema, Reuters, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Why had Congress abdicated its power to set tariffs?
    Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • In the wake of this violence, California’s feckless Democrat leaders have completely abdicated their responsibility to protect their citizens.
    Tara Suter, The Hill, 8 June 2025
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“Demitted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demitted. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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