as in retraction
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On July 2nd, the health insurance sector underwent a notable decline following Centene (NYSE:CNC)'s retraction of its financial outlook, citing rising costs.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
3 July 2025 -
The Roosevelt Hotel was recently the subject of White House ire, as the feds attempted to justify an $80 million retraction of FEMA funds with unsupported claims that the hotel was a hotbed of international gang activity.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
24 Feb. 2025
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This is largely due to the renunciation of complete sovereignty and the sharing of resources that the EU has encouraged for almost 60 years now.—
Frank-Walter Steinmeier,
Foreign Affairs,
13 June 2016
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Dual citizenship policies vary among countries, with some countries mandating renunciation of existing citizenship.—
Jean Francois Harvey,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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The modern cinema isn’t a repudiation of stories but a point of view on them—neither a rejection of them nor an assumption of them but an effort to discover them.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
20 May 2025
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Gelsinger’s departure late last year was widely seen as a repudiation by the company of his complex turnaround plan, which included trying to rebuild Intel’s manufacturing base.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 Mar. 2025
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The denial cited documentation that the nickname was used to refer to New York decades before Batman was created.—
Scott Soshnick,
Sportico.com,
24 July 2025
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Judge Robin Rosenberg, in her denial of that petition, said that an unrelated ruling in 2020 by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court does not have the power to unseal grand jury records in instances not covered by the criminal procedure rule.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
23 July 2025
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“Recantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recantation. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
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