How to Use secession in a Sentence

secession

noun
  • None of this can compare to the secession talk, though.
    — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 29 May 2026
  • On top of all this, red-state secession would be self-defeating.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Tyler Brown, for example, thinks secession could be a good idea.
    — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2022
  • These fears will hardly be assuaged by the two republics’ secession.
    — Daniel Treisman, CNN, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Pogue insists that much about the secession effort always has been a little hazy.
    — oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Thus far, voters in seven of the counties have approved the secession plan.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 4 June 2021
  • While Cruz's comments were light-hearted, the prospect of a Texas secession is not new.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Biedermann said this is not a bill for secession, but is rather meant to conduct a dialogue.
    — Alex Briseno, Dallas News, 11 May 2021
  • The three judges, however, wrote that this argument did not rule out that secession could be one of the meanings.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 27 July 2021
  • More than an effort to raise revenue, then, the political point of a wealth tax is that such secession will not stand.
    — Noah Millman, The Week, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The call to revolution turned into a right to secession.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • This is, after all, the same platform that calls for a secession referendum.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Calls for secession have been growing since the 2020 election.
    — Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Texas toyed with the idea of secession when Barack Obama was president.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Texas toyed with the idea of secession when Barack Obama was president.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The threat of Scottish secession has, at least for the moment, receded.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The fractious run-up to the town’s secession is not noted in church records, nor is any subsequent argument.
    — Gary Greenberg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Attempts at political secession spread as far as Odessa to the south and Kharkiv to the west.
    — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
  • But that does not mean the Catalonians are united behind the idea of secession.
    — Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Oct. 2017
  • All of the secession movements in the coalition are small and appear to have limited public support in their states.
    — oregonlive.com, 24 June 2019
  • The first is the secession of the plebeians, where commoners staged a walkout in protest of unfair treatment by the ruling class.
    — Phil Kirschner, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
  • In 2011, one of many wars ended with the secession of South Sudan.
    — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
  • He was found guilty of inciting secession by a judge who was handpicked by Carrie Lam, the city’s leader.
    — Dan Strumpf, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2021
  • If the debt is so big that the state can’t cover it, then that’s leverage to reach a different type of settlement, such as a tax-free zone or even secession.
    — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 3 June 2024
  • The very first seeds of secession were sown at the First Baptist Church of Columbia.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 10 June 2020
  • The secession movement is regaining steam.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Pro-secession grassroots groups organized the rally to call for a new state in the northeastern corner of Spain.
    — Fox News, 26 Oct. 2019
  • Brown’s futile raid created a sense of crisis in the South that paved the way for the secession movement a little more than a year later.
    — Adam Rowe, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2020
  • The crackdown on the secession movement sparked protests in Catalonia on Friday night.
    — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2018
  • In 1965, to keep him on the vast grounds of the abbey, the abbot approved a state of virtual secession within the monastery.
    — Garry Wills, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019

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