APOSTATIZING Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

apostatizing

verb

present participle of apostatize

as in renouncing

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Although economic espionage is not without risk, unilaterally renouncing the practice in the current global environment is far more dangerous.

— DAVID S. COHEN, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026
Eric Lai, a senior fellow with the Georgetown Center for Asian Law, said every actor in Hong Kong civil society who assumed that renouncing violence and working within the law would be fine has to revise that assumption.

— Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of renouncing

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Supporters of 2022 World Cup champions Argentina were among the most visible in Doha during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, with some saving for four years and forsaking home-buying in order to make the trip.

— Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
If bigger and better opportunities come along, striking while the iron is hot is a logical course of action, even when moves sometimes appear to make more sense for financial reasons than footballing ones and forsaking the comfort of operating in a stable environment.

— Andy Naylor, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026

Definition of forsaking

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And in Steinbeck’s original telling, Cathy — the most beloved patricidal, baby-abandoning prostitute in literature — is simply born that way.

— Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2026
That approach could help the Army strengthen its missile defenses without abandoning the technology and infrastructure already supporting its air defense operations.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of abandoning

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That agreement soon unravelled with Trump making new conditions in public and the Saudis repudiating them.

— Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
In his encyclical, Leo also made one of the clearest statements yet from a pope repudiating the just war theory, a doctrine the Church has used since at least the fifth century to evaluate global conflicts.

— Joshua McElwee, USA Today, 25 May 2026

Definition of repudiating

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This may involve rejecting a command, removing write access, isolating the AI, transferring control back to the operator or moving equipment into a safe state.

— Gregory Shahnovsky, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
The sense was that the people who were rejecting the Keynesian model were throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

— Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of rejecting

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Hong Kong's stablecoin licensing further illustrates this, approving only HKD tokens while publicly disowning any CNH stablecoin claims.

— Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
The platforms that helped usher in the generative AI boom are now trying to clean up the mess without disowning the technology behind it.

— Angela Yang, NBC news, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of disowning

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Israel says commercial goods will no longer enter Gaza, cutting off a key source of food and shelter supplies as winter approaches for the roughly 2 million people in the territory.

— Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Deadhead blazing star during the growing season to encourage more flowering, but do not prune too soon, as cutting off the foliage may reduce next year’s blooms.

— Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2026

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