was seceding
- past progressive of secede.
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Finally, let’s take a close look at the “Declaration of Causes,” the document an elected Texas convention published in February 1861 to explain why the state was seceding from the United States.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2021
Less than a week after Congo's independence in June 1960, it announced it was seceding, sparking a conflict fuelled by Cold War rivalries.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2013
It was late in the fall of 1860, just before the rebellion, when the south was seceding or talking secession, and was already preparing for war.
From Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story by Abbott, L. A.
