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Example sentences for: abdication

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Before the diary was found, Japanese historians believed that the emperor had at least contemplated abdication.
His 20-year reign, weak at best, ended in all-round disaster: abdication, arrest, and war.
The last doge presented his abdication to Napoleon here.
His policy succeeded for a time, but following his abdication in a.d. 305, the empire continued to weaken, harassed by invaders and troubled by internal strife.
Grove's abdication of his throne also loses some drama from the fact that in recent years his public image has become that of a long-range thinker rather than a hands-on manager.