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disaffirmance

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as in renunciation

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This renunciation has had little impact on their progeny, who already studied them for years and viewed their content as a portrait of a viable future.

— Margaux MacColl, Vanity Fair, 11 Aug. 2026
Then, over the following years, came sustainability and strict reuse and ascetic renunciation, and today, finally, its photo series and articles advocated for a mild, slightly quirky anticapitalist metaphysics.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 July 2026

Definition of renunciation

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The statement was characterized in the press alternately as a denouncement, a repudiation and a disavowal.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026
These two phases of work are joined by Serra’s implicit disavowal of abstraction as a form of imagemaking in favor of an object’s aggressive purchase on the real.

— Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of disavowal

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Sandusky will not be able to pursue federal relief based on the recantation because the petition was not exhausted in state court.

— Lauren del Valle, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026
And Bishop’s formal recantation helped to fast-track the overturning of the convictions.

— Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 28 Jan. 2026

Definition of recantation

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At the end of August Watkins sent a retraction demand and spoke to Christopher Henderson, Salem Media’s chief legal officer.

— Abigail Sylvor Greenberg, Vanity Fair, 3 Nov. 2026
More than 250 signatories to a nationwide open letter that included professors at Harvard and Stanford also called for a retraction.

— Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of retraction

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But no other midterm election this century delivered the kind of personal repudiation that Trump faced, because no other president placed himself so very front and center in the campaign.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
What resulted was a midterm repudiation of Republicans that, as election night wore on, some in the White House were unwilling to own.

— Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of repudiation

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And about three-quarters of physicians report that denials have increased over the past five years.

— Mariska Breland, STAT, 4 Nov. 2026
The denial comes as blockchain analytics firms trace billions of dollars in cryptocurrency stolen from Binance through thousands of wallets across multiple blockchains.

— Jenny Lee, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2026

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