apostatizing

verb

present participle of apostatize
as in renouncing

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apostatizing
  1. renouncing
  2. forsaking
  3. abandoning
  4. repudiating
  5. rejecting
  6. abdicating
  7. disowning
  8. cutting off
Verb
  • In these photographs, the maternal body enters spaces designed around seduction, aspiration, and idealized femininity without renouncing any of them.
    — Alessia Glaviano, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The 2019 Business Roundtable statement renouncing MSV changed rhetoric.
    — Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of renouncing
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • The company is abandoning the $799 price point, with the Pixel 11 expected to start at $899 for 256GB storage, legitimizing a wider industry shift to higher base storage and prices.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Bondele was among hundreds of Ebola response workers in Bunia who staged strikes and protests over unpaid wages in recent weeks, at times abandoning health facilities and disrupting parts of the response as the outbreak continued to spread.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of abandoning
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Following fan outcry, Warners then decided to explore offers to sell it, only to — after rejecting various bids — seemingly take it off the market.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Thurmond offered only a brief explanation for rejecting the appeal, leaving the decision somewhat at odds with the state’s separate finding that the teachers agreement would have improved the district’s financial position.
    — Chaewon Chung August 11, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of rejecting
Verb
  • They’d be upset about Article One of the Constitution, the legislative branch abdicating its powers; that is, the people’s power to wage war and to levy tariffs.
    — KEN BURNS, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
  • Dinello was right, and The Late Show eventually became late night’s ratings leader—a throne that CBS is now voluntarily abdicating.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
Definition of abdicating
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • With the sole funder of the breakaway circuit cutting off the money spigot, it was speculated that LIV, or at least the current version of it, would cease to exist beyond this year.
    — Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Beijing has a history of using economic coercion, like cutting off rare-earth exports or restricting market access, as a tool of foreign policy.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of cutting off
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