renege

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Recent Examples of renege In the hours after the Qatari prime minister announced the agreement on Wednesday, Netanyahu’s office sent a cascade of press releases accusing Hamas of reneging on promises to give Israel a veto over some Palestinian prisoners due to be released. Mick Krever, CNN, 17 Jan. 2025 However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alleged Thursday that Hamas had reneged on parts of the agreement. Tara Suter, The Hill, 16 Jan. 2025 Netanyahu’s office said his Cabinet won’t meet to approve the deal until Hamas backs down, accusing it of reneging on parts of the agreement in an attempt to gain further concessions, without elaborating. Samy Magdy, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025 Israel’s government accused Hamas of reneging on understandings that have already been reached. Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for renege 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for renege
Verb
  • Musk withdrew the suit in June 2024, then revived it in August 2024 under similar complaints.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The team withdrew with something that was reportedly injury related, but perhaps was more mental given the new paddle jitters Federico exhibited in the first two days of this event with his new adidas gear.
    Todd Boss, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2025
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  • The American publisher Wiley, which has retracted more than 11,300 articles and closed 19 heavily affected journals in its erstwhile Hindawi division, said its new paper mill detection tool flags up to 1 in 7 submissions.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2025
  • A day later, once the Tesla truth was clear, the center retracted the claim.
    Tariq Malik, Space.com, 31 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The company last year issued a profit warning after it was hit by sliding sales in China and forced to recall 1.5 million vehicles due to potentially faulty brake systems developed by Continental.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Neighbors recalled the girl as cheerful and her parents as loving.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Covered expatriates are individuals who meet certain criteria and who renounce U.S. citizenship or abandon long-term resident status.
    Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.D., Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Beijing has never renounced the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control.
    Reuters, NBC News, 13 Jan. 2025
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  • Hoffman’s cruiser struck the driver side door of the Mercedes before Bell tried backing out.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Don't think this is the time to leave your plants back out on the porch.
    Remington Miller, arkansasonline.com, 3 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Martin: Are the Democrats, in your view, in the Senate, particularly agreed on this strategy of denying future nominees their votes?
    Ally Schweitzer, NPR, 4 Feb. 2025
  • As a result, the court gave the Metropolitan AME Church ownership of the trademark, giving them the right to deny use of the group's name and yellow or black laurel wreath symbol.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • There are multiple gates in each of the three sets of locks that elevate ships from sea level on the Atlantic, up eighty-five feet into Gatun Lake, then back down to sea level on the Pacific.
    Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Trump then threatened massive tariffs on Colombian goods and Colombia’s president backed down, even offering his personal aircraft to assist in picking up illegals being deported from the U.S.
    Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Feb. 2025

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“Renege.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/renege. Accessed 18 Feb. 2025.

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