RESIGNING Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

resigning

verb

present participle of resign

as in abdicating

to give up (as a position of authority) formally following the election, the incumbent cabinet members resigned their positions so the president could feel free to pick a new administration

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Recent Examples of resigning Six months after resigning, Phillips has yet to turn over any records. — Kelsy Mittauer, CBS News, 29 June 2026 What gets missed is the reality that 120% today might mean 40% tomorrow due to burnout, or 0% because that individual ends up resigning. — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026 Trump will also encounter another former pal – Keir Starmer – who’ll shortly have more time to pursue his avid amateur soccer career after resigning as British prime minister. — Ben Church, CNN Money, 7 July 2026 Now managing the Rangers, Schumaker guided the Marlins for two years before resigning following the 2024 season. — ABC News, 22 June 2026 Misan Harriman, chair of London’s Southbank Centre, is resigning following accusations of sharing antisemitic posts. — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 24 June 2026 Former President Richard Nixon, too, was accused of trying to steer the commemoration through the executive branch during the run-up to celebrations before resigning in 1974. — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 3 July 2026 Harris first joined DeKalb police in 2014 before voluntarily resigning in 2020, Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council records show. — Caroline Silva, AJC.com, 9 July 2026 Michael Hoffman aka Michael Herman Hoffman did this by resigning from the Oregon State Bar in December 2024 and requesting to be essentially disbarred in Florida, which the state Supreme Court obliged on June 25. — David J. Neal july 5, Miami Herald, 5 July 2026

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They’d be upset about Article One of the Constitution, the legislative branch abdicating its powers; that is, the people’s power to wage war and to levy tariffs.

— KEN BURNS, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
Dinello was right, and The Late Show eventually became late night’s ratings leader—a throne that CBS is now voluntarily abdicating.

— David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026

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Mark Ford Rosemary Tonks emulated French Symbolist poets before converting to Christianity and renouncing all her own works.

— The New York Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026
Corbett, of Palatine, announced his independent candidacy days after renouncing the current state of the Republican Party and dropping his consulting business work with GOP contenders.

— Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2026