as in refusal
the act or practice of giving up or rejecting something once enjoyed or desired
her renouncement of chocolate had a lot to do with the fact that it was causing her skin to break out
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Just a few weeks earlier, North Carolina’s governor, Josh Stein, was forced to appeal the federal government’s refusal to continue funding 100% of the state’s debris removal costs in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025 -
The current crisis stems from the refusal of the administration to return to the US one Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who, while not renditioned under the AEA, was sent to El Salvador.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Apr. 2025
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Erdoğan may need Kurdish support to run again Some analysts have said public suggestions by Erdoğan's political allies that Ocalan, the 75-year-old PKK leader, could be released in return for a renunciation of violence, form part of an effort to woo Kurdish voters.—
Willem Marx,
NPR,
1 Mar. 2025
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Enacted after the Civil War as a renunciation of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which held that Black people are not citizens of the U.S., the birthright citizenship clause has been relatively uncontested since 1868.—
Henry Gass,
The Christian Science Monitor,
30 Jan. 2025
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Planning staff recommended denial of the permit for the drive-thru, which would sit within 300 feet of another drive-thru to its north and the Bainbridge subdivision to its west on Lost Rapids Drive.—
Rose Evans,
Idaho Statesman,
19 Apr. 2025
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Often the oddity comes from the chilling drone of bureaucracy: the executor’s compassionate thicket of legal reasoning, an airline representative’s denial of Carrie’s quest for a bereavement discount, the dollars and cents of Dr. J’s cremation (for which Carrie is retroactively billed).—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2025
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The feats, the ecstasies, the prostrations and abnegations.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2025
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The explicit and quasi-religious abnegation of the right to violent self-defense put the national committee at odds with one of its key allies during the Saturday march: Black Lives Matter.—
Samantha Eyler,
Foreign Affairs,
31 Jan. 2017
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“Renouncement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/renouncement. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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