Examples of abnegation in a Sentence
the couple's sudden abnegation of life in the fast lane for work as missionaries stunned everyone
Recent Examples on the Web
In other words, another Trump presidency all but guarantees a complete abnegation of the country’s climate duties from 2025 to 2029.
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Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2024
Is that an abnegation of interviewer responsibility?
—David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
In the latter’s rewrite of the Lancelot fable, the abducted Guinevere was elevated to a glamorous ice queen commanding knightly self-abnegation.
—Tina Brown, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
The life that Alharthi describes is one of almost saintly self-abnegation.
—Ron Charles, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
His naïve insolence punctures the vanities of other filmmakers while offering no alternative, and the movie that results is a joyless, confused self-abnegation.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
That abnegation of critical judgment is the most important feature of the 1994 statement.
—Michael Bérubé, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2022
Where to go in a world where every slight, every frown, every chagrin, every cloud and every rainy day is a cause for outrage, denunciation, shame, self-abnegation and maybe even a congressional investigation or two?
—WSJ, 14 June 2021
Many performers practice public self-abnegation about their talent.
—Washington Post, 12 May 2021
Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2024
Is that an abnegation of interviewer responsibility?
—David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
In the latter’s rewrite of the Lancelot fable, the abducted Guinevere was elevated to a glamorous ice queen commanding knightly self-abnegation.
—Tina Brown, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
The life that Alharthi describes is one of almost saintly self-abnegation.
—Ron Charles, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
His naïve insolence punctures the vanities of other filmmakers while offering no alternative, and the movie that results is a joyless, confused self-abnegation.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
That abnegation of critical judgment is the most important feature of the 1994 statement.
—Michael Bérubé, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2022
Where to go in a world where every slight, every frown, every chagrin, every cloud and every rainy day is a cause for outrage, denunciation, shame, self-abnegation and maybe even a congressional investigation or two?
—WSJ, 14 June 2021
Many performers practice public self-abnegation about their talent.
—Washington Post, 12 May 2021
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“Abnegation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abnegation. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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