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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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Part of what fascinated me about their presentation was not only their refusal to kowtow to male desire, which for decades had a stranglehold on rock aesthetics, but a concomitant disavowal of commercialism.

— Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Pelicot is troubled by her children’s immediate disavowal of their father, of their entire childhood.

— Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2026

Definition of disavowal

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During the years that the journal spent considering how to respond to the university’s request for a retraction, more doctors across the country began prescribing naltrexone.

— Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 24 Aug. 2026
The extraordinary retraction has once again thrust into the spotlight the city’s audit, which The Star revealed earlier this year after obtaining a copy of the review.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of retraction

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Improve home-health billing, claims submission, denial management, legacy accounts receivable, revenue-cycle dashboards, and financial sustainability.

— Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2026
The denial-of-service attacks meant that hackers pushed massive traffic toward the agency in order to block services, including one that enables citizens to use one login across multiple public services.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Aug. 2026

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