as in renunciation
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The Sweet Dove Died is considered Pym’s most Jamesian work and there are inflections of the Master in the themes of falling out of love, renunciation, and collecting—the pursuit of beauty falling short.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025 -
Oddly, the move comes not as a renunciation but as a new adventure.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
15 Aug. 2025
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Anderson saw something in the artist formerly known as Marky Mark, who’d only made the transition from musical artist to actor three years earlier, that Wahlberg still doesn’t see in himself, if his disavowal of the movie is any indication.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
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But the new wave of disavowals represents the latest sign that the conflict, which has killed thousands of Palestinians, has become polarizing within the mainstream of the party.—
David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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About 9% of domestic box production capacity is set to shut down, which is the steepest retraction for the industry since the 2008 financial crisis, Virginia Tech economist Jadrian Wooten wrote earlier this month.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
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The authors agreed to the retraction, calling the errors honest mistakes.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
24 Sep. 2025
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If Helmy finds in the Party the kind of fellowship and outlet for his energies that a good career might otherwise have satisfied, Erich embraces his new identity with a snarling brutality that is a repudiation of his former sense of humiliation.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
19 Aug. 2025
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And to be fair, most of the departures weren’t a repudiation of Amador’s appointment.—
David Lyman,
The Enquirer,
7 Aug. 2025
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Rebholz wrote about the application denial in a December 2022 post on the NCA website.—
Cathy Kozlowicz,
jsonline.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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Because Snopes and Live Science contacted NTU separately and reached the same denial, the claim fails basic verification tests, which is not a minor error but a core authenticity issue.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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