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seceding

  • present participle of secede.

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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

“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

Secession: Voters in San Bernardino County will soon get to say whether they want the county to study options that include seceding from the state, The Associated Press reports.

From New York Times Aug. 10, 2022

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