abdication

How to use abdication in a sentence

• Mutineers stopped his train and forced the tsar’s abdication in favor of an ill-fated Provisional Government.

  Tsar Nicolas II Thought Vodka Was Hurting Russians—But Banning It Helped Destroy His Empire | Mark Lawrence Schrad | July 20, 2021 | Time

• That federal abdication has left state and local public health officials and businesses scrambling to craft policies, often on the fly.

  Most employers shy away from mandating coronavirus vaccines | Dan Diamond | May 21, 2021 | Washington Post

• The monarchy has been shaken, but remained intact, by other major events involving newcomers to the family, such as the abdication crisis of 1936, and in more recent memory, Princess Diana’s explosive 1995 Panorama interview with Martin Bashir.

  How Meghan and Harry’s Interview Blew Open the Monarchy’s Troubled History With Race | Suyin Haynes | March 10, 2021 | Time

• The result of the abdication of federal leadership in 2020 was an atomization of decision-making that affected the lives and well-being of millions of people.

  The Lost Year: What the Pandemic Cost Teenagers | by Alec MacGillis, photography by Celeste Sloman | March 8, 2021 | ProPublica

• It was a shocking moment, an abdication of comedic responsibility in favor of a decision to paint Clinton not as a politician but as a kind of conduit for grief the show assumed was universal, rather than partisan.

  We live in a golden age of cringe | Sonny Bunch | January 27, 2021 | Washington Post