Example Sentences

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It makes sense that Stearns is foremost interested in Casey’s journey from weakling to right-hand man to abdicator of power.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2019

The authoritarian sounds bossy, the abdicator yields in arguments, the critic criticizes, and it is all supposedly plain�often painfully plain to the subject himself�when the others' observations of him begin to "feed back."

From Time Magazine Archive