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Incorporating a sewing machine motor and colored lights, the sculpture appeared to viewers as a translucent dome across which abstract images flickered, and whose retraction into a black plastic cabinet visitors could trigger by stepping on a nearby pressure-sensitive pad.
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News Desk, Artforum, 17 Oct. 2024
The utility of this recording does not come just from what the pilots might say; the sound of a stall warning indicator or landing gear retraction or engine noise could each allow investigators to infer things about the flight's last moments.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2025
Coppola subsequently demanded a correction and retraction from the outlet, which declined to do so.
—Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2025
Trump's decision to scale back his criticism of Zelenskyy, alongside a retraction of his accusations of dictatorship, fueled optimism that the Ukrainian president's upcoming visit might become a triumph of Ukrainian-US diplomacy.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
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News Desk, Artforum, 17 Oct. 2024
The utility of this recording does not come just from what the pilots might say; the sound of a stall warning indicator or landing gear retraction or engine noise could each allow investigators to infer things about the flight's last moments.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2025
Coppola subsequently demanded a correction and retraction from the outlet, which declined to do so.
—Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2025
Trump's decision to scale back his criticism of Zelenskyy, alongside a retraction of his accusations of dictatorship, fueled optimism that the Ukrainian president's upcoming visit might become a triumph of Ukrainian-US diplomacy.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retraction
Noun
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Saxon through acquisition; Piper through renunciation.—
January LaVoy Krish Seenivasan Ted Blaisdell,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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The conclave takes place only in the event of the pope's death or renunciation for personal reasons.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2025
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From Denial to Delay: The PR Playbook The UCS report also outlines how corporate PR strategies evolved over time—from denial to delay.—
Felicia Jackson,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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That revenue is simply written off because appealing denials is too slow, expensive, and broken to fix manually.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
14 May 2025
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The full skirt and tailored jacket were a repudiation of the war's utilitarian styles and an embrace of extravagance. 20 of 20 Nicole Scherzinger Newly minted Tony nominee Nicole Scherzinger brought Old Hollywood glamour and drama to the carpet with her tailored and bedazzled pinstripe gown.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
6 May 2025
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The move to publish the arbitration filing is one of Meta’s most forceful public repudiations of a former employee’s tell-all memoir, several of which have been published over the past two decades.—
Mike Isaac,
New York Times,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Retraction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retraction. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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