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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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One reason Pharis has been so vocal online is to fight back against the shame and denial that drive so many to withhold their HIV status from others.
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Between 2016 and 2023, claim denials increased from 9% to 12%.
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The Ducks have seven days to exercise their right of first refusal on the player, per the NHL collective bargaining agreement.
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Republican hardliners jammed up the House floor this week, in part because of congressional leadership's refusal to attach a version of the election bill, dubbed the SAVE America Act, to the National Defense Authorization Act.
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Using basic academic terminology would place grants at risk of rejection or termination on political grounds.
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That persisted into 2026 amid disagreements over the Russian war on Ukraine, including Meloni’s rejection of a proposal by Britain and France to send European troops there following a possible ceasefire.
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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 5 Jul. 2026.
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