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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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Winter 2026 matched the frigid relationship between Japan and China as there was a significant retraction in the series following Prime Minister Takaichi’s statement about Taiwan in November 2025.—
Kalai Chik,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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Continue reading … STANDING FIRM — New York Times defends controversial anti-Israel piece, 'no truth' to retraction claims.—
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FOXNews.com,
13 May 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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Carney is a moralist, a filmmaker of fidelity—and of renunciation, depicting the romantic near-misses and what-ifs that his characters leave behind.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
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The numbers from the report are compiled from citizenship renunciation records, overseas residency registrations and survey data tracking American interest in living overseas.—
Alex Ledsom,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Now after the denial of DeMore, the Parole Board still does not have a member with a prosecutorial background.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
7 June 2026
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Friedkin, who died in 2023 and is seen only in archival interviews, now seems disingenuous in some of his denials that the film was exploitative, especially with regard to the murder that inspired it.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
6 June 2026
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The results were widely interpreted as a repudiation of Labour's performance to date by British voters.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
12 May 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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“Recantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recantation. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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