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as in denial
a refusal to confirm the truth of a statement
voters seemed satisfied by the candidate's public repudiation of the beliefs of an organization to which he had briefly belonged as a youth
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as in refusal
the act or practice of giving up or rejecting something once enjoyed or desired
New Year's resolutions typically include the repudiation of chocolate and other indulgences and the promise to resume working out at the gym
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Recent Examples of repudiation
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.
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Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2026
Indeed, Trump’s foreign policy has often been less a repudiation of neoconservatism than a mutation of it.
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Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2026
The repudiation was a moral imperative for Ukraine’s flag-bearer at the Opening Ceremony.
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Sean Strockyj,
New York Daily News,
17 Feb. 2026
This statement, which the central bank posted on its website, amounted to an unprecedented repudiation of a President by a sitting Fed chair.
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John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
15 Jan. 2026
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Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2026
Indeed, Trump’s foreign policy has often been less a repudiation of neoconservatism than a mutation of it.
—
Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2026
The repudiation was a moral imperative for Ukraine’s flag-bearer at the Opening Ceremony.
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Sean Strockyj,
New York Daily News,
17 Feb. 2026
This statement, which the central bank posted on its website, amounted to an unprecedented repudiation of a President by a sitting Fed chair.
—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
15 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for repudiation
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Their desperate hope, their cruel denial still weigh on this nation’s soul 87 years later, though most Americans only caught glimpses of the doomed passengers through news reels.
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Iraq were the weakest in this section and, when Rebin Sulaka pulled back Sadio Mane in the 13th minute, he was dismissed for the denial of an obvious goalscoring opportunity.
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The stat might reflect a mere delay rather than a total refusal — Bain’s research suggests most people still get licenses by age 25.
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His refusal to do so jeopardizes public safety.
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Social and physical pain share overlapping circuitry in the brain, and a large-scale meta-analysis identified the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex as the region most reliably activated by social rejection, the same region most associated with the experience of pain itself.
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At the end of the day, the college audition process has rejection.
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Rules have changed over decades, so some claims succeed while others face hurdles like formal renunciation.
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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.
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Not one for false abnegation of words distorted by smears, Rushdie doubles down on his right to freedom of expression, defending his dissent from religious orthodoxy.
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That, for me, feels like an abnegation of our responsibility in theater.
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“Repudiation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repudiation. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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