as in to resign
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Pressure on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is growing, after another key aide resigned over revelations about Epstein’s contact with a senior politician.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
16 Feb. 2026 -
Wetzel replaces Donnie Yantis, who in January resigned as head coach after four seasons at the private school.—
Greg Riddle,
Dallas Morning News,
16 Feb. 2026
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Paul did not appear in a game with the Raptors, who waived him Friday.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
13 Feb. 2026
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Last May, Georgia expected to waive roughly $327 million in sales and use taxes for the equipment that Big Tech purchased this fiscal year for its data centers.—
Zachary Hansen,
AJC.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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Aljorna and Sosa-Celis denied assaulting the officer.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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Decades later, Faraci cooperated with Modrowski’s lawyer during the post-conviction proceedings and submitted two affidavits in 2019 and 2011 denying Modrowski was involved, court records show.—
Christy Gutowski,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Feb. 2026
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The move was soon reversed by President Abraham Lincoln, and Grant later disavowed it—but Owens did not.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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At his confirmation hearing, Kennedy refused to disavow links between vaccines and autism, a favorite theory of outfits spurring vaccine hesitancy among parents, though numerous studies have found no connection.—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
13 Feb. 2026
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Even the closest readers of the post could trouble themselves wondering if Damsky’s words implied something more than a call for members of that group to voluntarily abjure their own identity.—
Conor Friedersdorf,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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The foreigners, almost without exception, refuse to formally abjure Christianity, though that is one way to gain liberty.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025
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In September 2025, it was revealed that Ferguson sent an email to Epstein apologizing for publicly disowning him in a March 2011 interview with the Evening Standard.—
Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
3 Feb. 2026
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At the end of her remarks Monday, McCarthy told the court that Mykkanen’s family has disowned Garner.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
12 Jan. 2026
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Its roots are in publicly paying penance for serious sins or crimes in the eyes of the church, like adultery or apostasy, which means renouncing the church and its beliefs.—
Lianna Norman,
Florida Times-Union,
16 Feb. 2026
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Besson’s vision explores the love that was ripped away from Dracula and how that loss led him to renounce God and live for an eternity as his punishment.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
13 Feb. 2026
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Governments cannot create high-risk environments and then disclaim responsibility for the outcomes.—
Krutika Kuppalli,
STAT,
4 Feb. 2026
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Arledge said the city filed an application asking the state to disclaim the remainder of the land adjacent to the Warm Springs Golf Course in May 2019 — the same process through which city the had previously obtained part of the course’s land.—
Sally Krutzig,
Idaho Statesman,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Demit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demit. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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