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Recent Examples of apostatizeSavannah's mom left the church in 2015, when leaked official documents confirmed their policy of apostatizing same-sex couples.—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.—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
The term describes the conscious decision to avoid or renounce managerial roles in order to preserve mental health, maintain balance and prioritize meaningful work.
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Jose Luis Gonzalez Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Advertisement Lee also renounced any concept of gender roles, longing for full social equality regardless of gender or race.
Tomorrow belonged to individuals who broke the rules, forsaking protocol to act inventively.
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Angus Fletcher,
Big Think,
29 Sep. 2025
American brands such as Marc Jacobs, Alexander Wang, and the Row have often forsaken New York Fashion Week to show in Paris or on their own schedules, or not at all.
The way Zohran Mamdani—the son of an Indian-Ugandan Muslim scholar of Africa—has repudiated these values, along with his adherence to a cosmopolitan vision of peace and justice, guarantees extreme hostility to him among the Establishment.
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Pankaj Mishra,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
Joe takes his accusations against Ted public; Louise repudiates them publicly.
The letter also called for the return of mandatory standardized testing in university admissions and for universities to report the anonymous scores and grades of accepted and rejected students.
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Helen Rummel,
AZCentral.com,
2 Oct. 2025
In a June ruling, a three-judge Kansas Court of Appeals panel rejected Kobach’s arguments in no uncertain terms.
The floater that has been such a huge part of his game abandoned him.
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Jon Krawczynski,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Twenty years prior to the present day of the movie, Ray Stoker (Day-Lewis) abandoned his family to live off the grid in a hut in the woods after a scarring incident during the conflict, which pitted Catholics against Protestants within Northern Ireland, and union loyalists against republicans.
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