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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.

And then at dinner it became known— Heaven knows how!—that the entire Clutterbuck party had given notice and was seceding to the Hotel M�tropole.

From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold