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Recent Examples of apostatize
Savannah's mom left the church in 2015, when leaked official documents confirmed their policy of apostatizing same-sex couples.
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Caroline Picard,
Good Housekeeping,
20 June 2017
The conundrum is one that has nothing to do with Rodrigues’ decision whether to lay down his life, but with his reluctance to apostatize, even in the face of others’ deaths.
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Michael O'Sullivan,
The Denver Post,
6 Jan. 2017
In one of the more powerful sequences, three older men are hung from crosses positioned deep in the ocean’s waters — the thrashing waves killing them slowly for their refusal to apostatize.
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Lindsey Bahr,
Orange County Register,
6 Jan. 2017
Caroline Picard,
Good Housekeeping,
20 June 2017
The conundrum is one that has nothing to do with Rodrigues’ decision whether to lay down his life, but with his reluctance to apostatize, even in the face of others’ deaths.
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Michael O'Sullivan,
The Denver Post,
6 Jan. 2017
In one of the more powerful sequences, three older men are hung from crosses positioned deep in the ocean’s waters — the thrashing waves killing them slowly for their refusal to apostatize.
—
Lindsey Bahr,
Orange County Register,
6 Jan. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apostatize
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Jafarzadeh highlighted Khabiri as a symbol of the regime’s repression of athletes, as Khabiri was a rising soccer star who became captain of Iran’s national team before being arrested and asked to appear on television to renounce his political beliefs.
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Her first book, Notes on a Foreign Country (2018), seeks to take stock of, and renounce, American solipsism abroad.
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Anguished and alone, Nick is similarly cast away, seemingly cursed to spend the rest of his days forsaken in his hometown, now a foreign land.
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Supporters of 2022 World Cup champions Argentina were among the most visible in Doha during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, with some saving for four years and forsaking home-buying in order to make the trip.
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How refreshing to have a MAGA insider repudiate the lies.
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In his encyclical, Leo also made one of the clearest statements yet from a pope repudiating the just war theory, a doctrine the Church has used since at least the fifth century to evaluate global conflicts.
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Those seeking to stop the roundup reject almost all of the federal agencies’ claims, from the size of the herd to the notion that the horses cause ecological damage.
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While state studies have criticized the state’s education governance model, voters have rejected at least four attempts dating back to 1928 to reform the position.
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With a lockout coming, fans who lack trust in the organization could abandon their fandom completely.
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After her father abandoned the family, her mother moved Blyth and her sister to New York City.
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Edward shared the news of his engagement and plan to abdicate during a BBC radio broadcast in December 1936.
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Queen Elizabeth's uncle Edward VIII abdicated the throne within a year of his ascension in order to marry a two-time divorcée, Wallis Simpson.
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Some Sox fans claimed to disown the team back then, and now are jumping back on the bandwagon.
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He was also forced to disown his family.
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In it, Pearson delivered an opening monologue about his desire to quit dancing.
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Two years into what was intended to be a seven-year apprenticeship, Walton quit and followed his siblings south.
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“Apostatize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apostatize. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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