reneged

past tense of renege

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Recent Examples of reneged Netanyahu also said Israel would not hesitate to restart its military campaign against Hamas if the militant group refused the deal or reneged on the terms of the agreement. Shannon K. Kingston, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2025 Thaksin briefly allied with Move Forward in an attempt to form a government, but reneged on that deal to instead lead a motley coalition alongside 10 establishment-leaning parties, including two directly responsible for the 2014 ouster of his sister. Charlie Campbell, Time, 15 Sep. 2025 Only, his side of the story suggests that this summer was the boiling point of a longer game, dating back to last summer when contract promises were reneged upon. Harry De Cosemo, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025 In a video shared on X by a user who identified himself as Phillips’ best friend, the gift-giving moment went viral, and prompted commenters to call into question why the team reneged on the PS5. Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 18 Dec. 2024 Trudeau won successive elections in 2019 and 2021, but his popularity has steadily declined since as Canadians have become frustrated with political scandals, reneged promises and the economy, among other issues. Lex Harvey, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024 Musk then reneged on the Twitter sitter thing. Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 13 Dec. 2024 After Assad launched a shocking mass chemical weapons strike on Syrian civilians in 2013, in which more than 1,400 people were killed, former President Obama’s administration reneged on its promise to take military action against Assad. Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2024 The judge did, however, find that Taylor reneged on the terms of the divorce agreement, citing a video uploaded to social media earlier this year. Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reneged
Verb
  • The fighting between the two countries in recent weeks marks the deadliest escalation since the US withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021, and could signal a new period of instability for the once-friendly neighbors.
    Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Afghanistan withdrew from a Twenty20 international tri-series in Pakistan following the deaths of three local cricketers, which the Afghanistan Cricket Board attributed to military strikes in Paktika province.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The grounds crews can work on the grass sections in tight quarters underneath the concourses and get grow lamps on them even when they’re retracted.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The woman filed a human resources complaint against him but retracted it days later out of fear of retaliation, three officials told Politico.
    Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In a new career retrospective interview with The Guardian, Curry, who played the concierge in the movie, recalled once having to lie to Ivana about her choice of interior decorating in the hotel, where the movie was filmed.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Rodgers recalled hearing one of those songs on the radio a year later.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Takaichi has called for a hardline stance towards China and is also in favor of revising Japan’s pacifist constitution, especially Article 9, which renounced Japan’s right to wage war.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Using simple yet incandescent prose, Paine renounced, repudiated and ridiculed at a clip seldom witnessed in print before or since.
    Matthew Redmond, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The winning bidder for that project backed out amid conflict of interest allegations.
    Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Plus, the captain tells Lo that the passenger assigned to cabin 10 backed out days before departure.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Through a lawyer, Minaj denied the claims.
    Andrew Flanagan, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Wendi and her father Harvey have not been charged with any crime and have denied involvement in the plot.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But seeing Scherzer grow animated as Schneider approached, shortstop Andrés Giménez backed off.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Trump had earlier suggested Chicago could be the next target of a National Guard deployment but has since backed off out of concern that doing so without Pritzker’s agreement could create legal headache, sources familiar with the matter told CNN last month.
    Hanna Park, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Once there, Glick quickly gathered information that contradicted claims the authorities had made in ruling out foul play.
    Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • An internal investigation at the agency later found Jacobs violated its scientific integrity policy in releasing a statement that contradicted the National Weather Service.
    Jared Gans, The Hill, 8 Oct. 2025

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