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Recent Examples of recantation
And Bishop’s formal recantation helped to fast-track the overturning of the convictions.
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Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 28 Jan. 2026
Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 28 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for recantation
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Alongside its request for a retraction, the SPLC filed a motion asking for grand jury transcripts to make sure false statements weren't used to secure the indictment.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Apr. 2026
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Both crewmembers then focused on the aircraft flight path, and the retraction of the landing gear was inadvertently omitted.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
24 Apr. 2026
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Pelicot is troubled by her children’s immediate disavowal of their father, of their entire childhood.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
20 Feb. 2026
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But with Rourke’s strong disavowal, Hines also wanted to assure fans that there was nothing shady about the GoFundMe.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
6 Jan. 2026
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The department said the new $450 fee remains well below the government’s actual cost of processing renunciation requests.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
14 Mar. 2026
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British psychiatrist Humphry Osmond, who took part in a peyote ceremony with a First Nations group the Red Pheasant Band in Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1956, intuited the necessity of community, empathy, and ego renunciation during the psychedelic process.—
Erica Rex,
STAT,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Both aircraft are critical in modern conflicts as dense radar networks, long-range surface-to-air missiles, electronic warfare (EW), and anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) capabilities often define success or failure.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Apr. 2026
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His odds of winning an appeal of his bond denial seemed low.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
26 Apr. 2026
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Until then, smuggling weed had been a grand adventure, an escape from a society that had just thrown Prager’s generation into a meat grinder in Vietnam, a repudiation of the crooked politicians and backward preachers and greedy capitalists who were running the world.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2026
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Indeed, Trump’s foreign policy has often been less a repudiation of neoconservatism than a mutation of it.—
Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Recantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recantation. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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