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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
America’s repudiation of its traditional foreign policy is being driven by both Trump’s particular obsessions and wider geopolitical changes.
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Stephen Collinson, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
At the Sloans Lake location, CWA Local 777& alleged in a Feb. 3 filing that the company engaged in unlawful repudiation/modification of the contract and refusal to bargain/bad-faith bargaining as the union was engaged in negotiating a first contract with the company.
—Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025
Trump’s latest move reverses one of the Biden administration’s first acts, itself a repudiation of Trump’s 2017 announcement that banned the service of transgender troops.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
Pernicious racial politics and illiberal impulses of tribalism have poisoned American society for so long that a decisive repudiation from top down is required.
—Wenyuan Wu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025
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Stephen Collinson, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
At the Sloans Lake location, CWA Local 777& alleged in a Feb. 3 filing that the company engaged in unlawful repudiation/modification of the contract and refusal to bargain/bad-faith bargaining as the union was engaged in negotiating a first contract with the company.
—Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025
Trump’s latest move reverses one of the Biden administration’s first acts, itself a repudiation of Trump’s 2017 announcement that banned the service of transgender troops.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
Pernicious racial politics and illiberal impulses of tribalism have poisoned American society for so long that a decisive repudiation from top down is required.
—Wenyuan Wu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for repudiation
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Holocaust denial has started cropping up on major podcasts including Tucker Carlson’s and Joe Rogan’s.—
Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
1 May 2025
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That worries both Da Rien and Johnston, who fear the designation could be used to justify deportations of Haitians or visa denials.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
1 May 2025
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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
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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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Account hopes to combat misogynistic online content Creators like Andrew Tate provide a pipeline for men seeking advice about romantic rejection, physical self-esteem and economic insecurity to fall into radicalism and misogyny.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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Cronenberg’s rejection of the notion was just one of the first surprising musings from a discussion with Variety about his approach to art, including his consideration of the audience, embrace of technology and rejection of genre.—
William Earl,
Variety,
26 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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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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“Repudiation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repudiation. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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