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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
abrogate .
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Examples
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The Medinan stuff supersedes 'abrogates' the Meccan stuff.
Support the Pope Argent 2006
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Do you hold that the obligation of a child to obey the parent 'abrogates' the 'common nature,' because children are bound to 'obey their parents?'
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Business influences government to think poorly, an outcome which abrogates it's charter to "promote the general welfare."
Stephen Herrington: Swarm of the Black Swans Stephen Herrington 2011
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Literature is a field of comparisons and contrasts which spreads infinitely outwards, so that whatever we read, constantly modifies, adapts, questions or abrogates whatever we have read before.
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One president abrogates the Constitution, outs a covert operative, enourages our enemies by teasing them to “bring it on” while his daughters and those of his VeePee hide behind their parents and hurl potshots in the media, leads us into an unnecessary war that is left off the financial books for the next administration to deal with, and removes the last of the regulations that allows the financial gurus to take down our economy.
Think Progress » Former government employee Dana Perino doesn’t trust the government. 2010
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Business influences government to think poorly, an outcome which abrogates it's charter to "promote the general welfare."
Stephen Herrington: Swarm of the Black Swans Stephen Herrington 2011
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Literature is a field of comparisons and contrasts which spreads infinitely outwards, so that whatever we read, constantly modifies, adapts, questions or abrogates whatever we have read before.
Sunday Salon: Part Two of John Carey’s What Good are the Arts 2009
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The character is best described as an amalgam of Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon, who abrogates civil liberties and human rights through positing a conspiracy theory centered around a fictitious subversive organization known as "Aramchek".
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The only president I recall calling the constitution a “GD piece of paper” was the previous president … must have something to do with being a unitary executive that abrogates the balance of power.
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A foreclosure moratorium effectively abrogates the contract between the borrower and the lender — sticking the investor with a larger loss and preventing the housing market from fixing itself.
Why a Foreclosure Moratorium Is a Bad Idea Barbara Novick 2010
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