relinquish
verb (used with object)
to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.).
relinquishment
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a word derived from
relinquish.
Example Sentences
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That said, “Alabama probably can’t condition its economic incentives on the relinquishment of the federal right” to voluntary recognition of a union, Sachs told me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said during a relinquishment ceremony at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
From Reuters ● Aug. 14, 2023
Under ICWA, my father’s indigenous ancestry and his willingness to keep me would have made me unavailable for relinquishment.
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2022
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
“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
