Example Sentences

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She will abdicate on 14 January, which will be 52 years to the day since she became queen.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2023

Edward will abdicate for the love of Wallis.

From Salon • Feb. 16, 2020

In 2015 he will abdicate CBS’s Late Show, the show that once served as his consolation prize but has since turned into a running critique of its rival, The Tonight Show.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2014

Let Healthcare.gov be a demarcation in history: that from this day forward no leader will abdicate responsibility for technology and for business.

From Forbes • Oct. 25, 2013

So with your kind permission, I will keep the excellent body I now have and will abdicate in favor of my eldest son and return with my friends to Oz.

From The Royal Book of Oz In which the Scarecrow goes to search for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island by Thompson, Ruth Plumly