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recantation

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Definition of recantation

as in retraction

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Recent Examples of recantation And Bishop’s formal recantation helped to fast-track the overturning of the convictions. — Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 28 Jan. 2026

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Assistants—residents, fellows, or advanced practice providers—provide exposure, retraction, and continuity.

— Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
The hex storage cube printed well, with the pre-tuned retraction settings working well on the myriad tiny interspaced holes.

— Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of retraction

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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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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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If the human vanishes at the moment of execution, then fraud, repudiation, and abuse all become easier to scale.

— Raj Ananthanpillai, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
The results on Amendment 4 and Amendment 5 marked a stunning repudiation of Republican policy in a state that overwhelmingly elects Republican lawmakers.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2026

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