apostatizing

present participle of apostatize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for apostatizing
Verb
  • The revelations about the emails led to both Andrew and Sarah renouncing their Duke and Duchess of York titles in the past two weeks.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Tallis continued to have a successful career after the Reformation, despite never renouncing his Catholic faith.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Tomorrow belonged to individuals who broke the rules, forsaking protocol to act inventively.
    Angus Fletcher, Big Think, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Real estate may be the basis of all wealth, but a growing number of millionaires are forsaking homeownership and renting their residences instead.
    Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Labour will be very wary of abandoning its election manifesto promise not to raise income tax, however, and any moves to do so will leave the party wide open to attacks from opponents such as the Conservatives and increasingly popular party, Reform.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Perhaps the biggest name to distance itself from BHV is Disney, with Disneyland Paris abandoning plans to design BHV’s famous Christmas window displays this year, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV.
    Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The goal here should always be peace, and peace will require repudiating the most extreme voices on either side of this conflict.
    The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In a video obtained by the Sun, Perry also hinted at their connection while rejecting another mid-concert proposal from a fan.
    Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The long-odds necessity, at this late hour, of rejecting Mamdani is thus not merely a municipal judgment for the Big Apple.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Far from abdicating responsibility, these young adults were embracing it and moving, however slowly, into their future roles of caring for us.
    Don Riddell, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • In June, the King spoke about the possibility of abdicating to make way for his daughter.
    Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • All of it comes after a new email leaked showed Fergie apologizing to Epstein for publicly disowning him and Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl, detailing her abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and her encounters with Andrew.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Extended family members of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller are disowning him, according to his cousin.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The floods have also left 11 people missing, inundated more than 116,000 houses and 5,000 hectares of crops, and damaged roads and railways, cutting off traffic and power in several areas, the government’s disaster agency said in a report.
    Reuters, NBC news, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Per the trailer, the duo decide that her hair must go and end up shaving it off — a drastic change that Stone embraced, cutting off her naturally blond locks for the role.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
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“Apostatizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apostatizing. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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