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Discover LudwigThe phrase "abdicating responsibility" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone who is relinquishing or giving up their duties or obligations.
Example: "By not addressing the issue, he is abdicating responsibility for the team's failure."
Alternatives: "shifting blame" or "renouncing accountability."
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Knowing that you are responsible, do you think you should take the lazy way of abdicating responsibility for your career and giving it to your employer, or look out for yourself and build a solid career of brick?
Co-pilot: Getting advice is different from abdicating responsibility.
Abdicating responsibility has become a feature of Everton under Martínez.
But relinquishing control does not mean abdicating responsibility.
And an increased reliance on lottery funding is the government abdicating responsibility.
Some blame poverty and demand more money while abdicating responsibility for results.
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"Governments have abdicated responsibility.
Constitutionally, it has abdicated responsibility for power.
Mr. Rudin said that Mr. Wolfe abdicated responsibility.
This is something for which Haneke abdicates responsibility.
However, Campbell did not fully abdicate responsibility for the dossier.
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