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Discover LudwigThe phrase "abdicates responsibility" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone who is failing to take responsibility for their actions or duties.
Example: "The manager abdicates responsibility for the team's failures, leaving the employees feeling unsupported."
Alternatives: "shifts blame" or "renounces accountability."
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This is something for which Haneke abdicates responsibility.
Creating a marketing department just abdicates responsibility for marketing to that team".
It abdicates responsibility for personal opinion without surrendering the right to exercise it.
State and local action will not fill the large gap the federal government leaves as it abdicates responsibility on climate change.
We're witnessing an institutional structure that, at every level of government, abdicates responsibility, yet expects teachers and students to somehow excel within a radically broken--and broke--system.
This is increasingly important as your new national leadership abdicates responsibility for protecting Americans and the world from fossil fuel impacts to our people's health, our economies, and our environment.
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Guarded by clerks who abdicate responsibility with responses like "not my decision," the ministry finally disgorges a prisoner into Lillian's custody — but not Pato.
"Governments have abdicated responsibility.
Constitutionally, it has abdicated responsibility for power.
Co-pilot: Getting advice is different from abdicating responsibility.
Mr. Rudin said that Mr. Wolfe abdicated responsibility.
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