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
  • So forsaking crossing instead of cacciatore makes infinite sense.
    Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The story claims a heartsick Noccalula threw herself over the waterfall instead of forsaking her true love by being forced to marry another.
    Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Some of the subpoenaed nonprofits, including FLI, Ekō, and Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology, have also been publicly critical of Musk and xAI for, among other things, neglecting or abandoning their commitments to AI safety.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The soldier said that the main concern of troops in the area is that the Ukrainian leadership will try to hold onto what remains of Pokrovsk for as long as possible because abandoning the city would be seen as a major failure.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 8 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
  • Two in 5 Gen Zers are pursuing blue-collar work, rejecting the collegiate path and learning trades, according to a May 2025 survey of 1,434 young adults by Resume Builder.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
  • And the British nations, as ever, remained aloof, England rejecting a late offer to step in for Austria.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • And if that’s true, what would prohibit Congress from just abdicating all responsibility to regulate foreign commerce, for that matter, declare war, to the president.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • This came on the heels of emails published on the Mail on Sunday that revealed Andrew’s ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, apologized to Epstein weeks after publicly disowning him, back in 2011.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 3 Nov. 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 strikes on the Poltava region targeted energy infrastructure facilities, cutting off electricity, water and heating to some communities, authorities said.
    Oleksiy Pshemyskiy, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2025
  • 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
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“Apostatizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apostatizing. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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