apostatized

Definition of apostatizednext
past tense of apostatize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for apostatized
Verb
  • President Ahmed al-Sharaa is a one-time al-Qaeda commander who renounced the ideology before taking power.
    Jane Arraf, NPR, 11 Apr. 2026
  • If an ancestor renounced citizenship, rights to Canadian citizenship end there.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • And major medical groups have repudiated conversion therapy as ineffective and harmful.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The post was quickly repudiated.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • And the paintings began, in part, as a meditation on erasure—a rebuke, of sorts, to a digital regime that had abandoned writing’s tactility.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The speed problem Imas hasn’t abandoned his fears.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Orbán rejected the accusations and denounced them as interference in Hungary’s sovereignty.
    ABC News, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Richie said the company rejected the settlement demand and argued the state's workers' compensation program is the exclusive remedy for any injury in the workplace.
    Nicole Valdes, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • That candidate, Bushra Amiwala, disowned the support and condemned the ad, widely seen as an attempt to siphon voters from another young progressive, Kat Abughazaleh.
    David Daley, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Everyone is looking for the next Sam Darnold, and there might not be a better candidate than Jones — the 2021 first-round pick disowned by a team in the AFC East only to spend a year with the 49ers before blossoming elsewhere.
    Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Accountability for public officials who have used the office for their own gain and abdicated the grave responsibilities vested in them is popular and a galvanizing political force.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Catholics also seemed to have abdicated their moral responsibilities to Trump.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The two women haven’t spoken in 10 years when Mother Mary shows up on Sam Anselm’s doorstep with sad eyes and stringy hair, like a lost dog who got caught in the rain, and her spurned BFF leaps at the chance to make the most of her leverage.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The 6-foot-5, 300-pound Hiller spurned Alabama, Ohio State and Tennessee to join a program in need of talent up front during first-year head coach Jon Sumrall’s rebuild.
    Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Then, the livestream abruptly cuts off.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The war, now in its seventh week, has jolted markets and rattled the global economy as a great deal of shipping has been cut off and airstrikes have torn through military and civilian infrastructure across the region.
    ABC News, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
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“Apostatized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apostatized. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.

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