Example Sentences

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Yet enforcement of firearm relinquishment remains at best inconsistent and at worst nonexistent.

From Slate • Apr. 25, 2026

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said during a relinquishment ceremony at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

From Reuters • Aug. 14, 2023

They established special laws aimed at promoting foreign adoptions, which effectively allowed licensed private agencies to bypass proper child relinquishment practices as they exported huge numbers of children to the West year after year.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2022

Malamed said behavior problems are a leading cause of relinquishment and euthanasia.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2022

“Fear,” the doctor said, “is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson