How to Use abrogate in a Sentence

abrogate

verb
  • The company's directors are accused of abrogating their responsibilities.
  • Putin could decide to abrogate the treaty and test regardless, but that seems unlikely.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Trump and his lackeys do their best to disrupt free and fair elections, abrogate freedom of speech and curtail press freedom.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Council members should not abrogate their responsibility and should not approve this bill.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Even the suggestion that American Muslims’ right to practice their faith should be abrogated chips away at a bulwark that protects us all.
    — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 18 July 2019
  • Duterte tried to abrogate a key defense pact that would have restrained American forces from entering the Philippines for large-scale war drills but later backpedaled from the effort.
    — Jim Gomez, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Even so, critics of the pact, including Netanyahu, have seized on Iran's activities in the region as a reason to abrogate the agreement.
    — Nicole Gaouette, CNN, 19 Sep. 2017
  • What Britain has is a prime minister with instincts, sometimes good, sometimes bad, who almost as a point of principle refuses ever to temper or abrogate them in any way.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 5 July 2022
  • These institutions have generally reacted with stock outrage, insisting that any coup simply abrogates rules and norms.
    — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Their desire is that the president should be removed from office, perhaps that the result of the 2016 election itself could be abrogated.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 24 July 2019
  • The Agreement has never been abrogated by Congress, nor has Congress expressed an explicit intent to do so.
    — Shaun Chapoose, Denver Post, 20 May 2026
  • Turkey has already threatened to abrogate a pact with the European Union that vastly slowed the migrant influx via its territory.
    — Tribune News Service, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2017
  • In the face of intense opposition, the government fell the following February and soon the agreement was abrogated.
    — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 29 Sep. 2024
  • The current question in the Philippines is whether, even absent the terrorists and drug traffickers, Duterte’s instinct would be to abrogate democratic norms.
    — Jessica Trisko Darden, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Yet many white people fundamentally reject that black people are owed such regard, and indeed often feel that their own rights have somehow been abrogated by contemporary racial inclusion.
    — Elijah Anderson, Vox, 10 Aug. 2018
  • Trump’s decision to abrogate the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, as well as ongoing disputes over trade and tariffs, have caused the relationship to break down.
    — Washington Post, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2018
  • That by itself would not abrogate the deal, but would give Congress 60 days to reimpose sanctions on Iran, an action that would mean an end to the agreement, at least for the United States.
    — Peter Baker and Rick Gladstone, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Short of that, perhaps internal resistance within the administration or pressure from the public and the media might serve the oversight function that Congress, over the past eight months, has abrogated.
    — Douglas M. Charles, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Penn can and should be upgraded to accommodate greater capacity, abrogating Amtrak’s seizure of Block 780.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2025
  • That describes the approach Bush took in her effort to compel Joe Biden to abrogate the rights of America’s property owners in 2021.
    — The Editors, National Review, 8 Aug. 2024
  • As the twentieth century progressed, Cuba managed to abrogate its versions of the Platt Amendment and establish new constitutions.
    — Miriam Pensack, The Dial, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Last month, the House of Representatives agreed to do their bidding by tucking a provision in the Farm Bill that would abrogate state humane farming laws that ban gestation, veal, and battery crates.
    — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 18 May 2026
  • But Saied’s steps to abrogate the country’s institutions or place them under his control have raised alarms among democracy and human rights advocates in Tunisia and abroad — including the United States.
    — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Promote the Vote denies that its proposal, if adopted by voters, would abrogate the constitutional provisions alleged by Defend Your Vote, the group that filed the challenge.
    — Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Led Zeppelin asked a larger panel to reconsider, and Monday’s decision reinstated the verdict and abrogated a legal rule that the 9th Circuit adopted more than a decade ago.
    — Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2020
  • President Mirza may have abrogated the human constitution, but the 1947 Jinn Independence Act still holds.
    — Veronica Chambers, New York Times, 28 June 2019
  • In this future, which the rest of us are much too naive to understand, nothing will ever be devised by humankind, or at least American humankind, to discourage mass shootings without fatally abrogating the Second Amendment.
    — Kevin Riordan, Philly.com, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The bill would effectively abrogate a 2012 Supreme Court case which significantly limited the ability for states to be involved in immigration enforcement.
    — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The launch arrangement between Northrop and SpaceX abrogates NASA's preference to maintain two independent means of delivering supplies to the space station.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025

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