abjured

past tense of abjure

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for abjured
Verb
  • Royalist émigrés began to trickle back into the country in 1795, and a number of Jacobins who renounced their earlier radicalism were also reintegrated into civil society.
    Time, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Takaichi has called for a hardline stance towards China and is also in favor of revising Japan’s pacifist constitution, especially Article 9, which renounced Japan’s right to wage war.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • By contrast, Lai has avoided implying that there exists one China that includes Taiwan.
    STEPHEN WERTHEIM, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Except for a few urgent medical issues, such as an infected cut, Reed avoided health care providers.
    Charlotte Huff, NPR, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The South American country withdrew visa-free access in April in response to the three countries barring Brazilian passport holders from visa-free access.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The South African played this weekend in the PGA Tour's Bank of Utah Championship, but withdrew after the first round.
    Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Democrat has since faced calls from Republicans to drop out of the state attorney general race, though many Democrats and his corporate donors have not retracted their support.
    Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Stefano Mele, husband of Barbara Locci, initially confessed to killing his wife and her lover but later retracted his statement.
    Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The 29-year-old denied former Arsenal striker Folarin Balogun three times in the first half.
    Elias Burke, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • David denied the allegations at the time.
    Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Dash camera video, which recorded a portion of the incident, contradicted Lesch’s statements to police, prosecutors said.
    Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • That is, even the Pew study contradicted the claims people were making about wealthier moms being the most miserable and stressed.
    Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
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