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In early 1861, Clay was in Washington, D.C., where he organized a volunteer company to help defend the city against attack from seceding states.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

South Sudan is an oil-rich nation that became the world's newest country in 2011 after seceding from Sudan.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2025

“Texas has talked about seceding for a long time,” Ms. Haley said.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2024

“We are competing in a global marketplace, and if we don’t make sure we are creating and building the technology of the future, we are seceding our leadership and mobility in transportation,” Ms. Dingell said.

From Washington Times • Aug. 5, 2023

He had heard talk of tariffs, of slave states and free ones, of a violent old man named John Brown, and during the past winter, of states seceding from the Union.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt