apostatized

past tense of apostatize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for apostatized
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
  • The state argued those practices are harmful, and medical organizations such the American Psychological Association have also repudiated the practice.
    Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Some of those decisions aligned with some unitary executive claims, but others directly repudiated them.
    Graham G. Dodds, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As a result, the team abandoned the practice for the next two and a half seasons.
    Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin, Southern Living, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Wayne’s car was seen abandoned in Aurora’s Hoffman Heights neighborhood the next day, on June 15, 1986, but police did not link the car to Wayne until it was towed away two weeks later, an Aurora cold case investigator wrote in the affidavit.
    Katie Langford, Denver Post, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Still, this is early days, and there have been similar drugs which looked promising at the beginning but were later rejected due to safety concerns, Nadar said.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
  • That can feel quite personal, and maybe the parents feel rejected too.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • After years of friendship, Fergie — as the Duchess of York is popularly known — publicly disowned the billionaire in a 2011 interview.
    Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Unlike formal speeches or parliamentary votes, a podcast answer can be easily downplayed or disowned.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The last time this protocol was used was when Edward VIII abdicated in 1936.
    Max Foster, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Traditional media often abdicated those communities.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Several firms have in recent weeks announced plans to significantly trim their headcounts, spurned by company-specific factors, but against the backdrop of an increasingly precarious economic situation and the rise of automation and artificial intelligence.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Merlino came out on top after a hitman allegedly hired by Stanfa, spurned by Stanfa's refusal to pay him, became an informant for the FBI, per CBS News.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Trump has repeatedly threatened to cut off federal funding to New York City — and even take control of it — if Mamdani won.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • When the government cut off SNAP payments to poor families, a small restaurant-owner in Owensboro stepped in to give people free food.
    Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Nov. 2025
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“Apostatized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apostatized. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.

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