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Recent Examples of retraction
Steele has denied that accusation and demanded a retraction.
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The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
China denounced her and demanded a retraction.
—Jeff Kingston, Time, 15 Feb. 2026
An honest newspaper would print a large retraction.
—Arkansas Online, 28 Jan. 2026
Since Cohn had signed the letter asking for retraction, the lead inquirer did not report to him.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
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The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
China denounced her and demanded a retraction.
—Jeff Kingston, Time, 15 Feb. 2026
An honest newspaper would print a large retraction.
—Arkansas Online, 28 Jan. 2026
Since Cohn had signed the letter asking for retraction, the lead inquirer did not report to him.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retraction
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And Bishop’s formal recantation helped to fast-track the overturning of the convictions.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Pelicot is troubled by her children’s immediate disavowal of their father, of their entire childhood.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
20 Feb. 2026
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But with Rourke’s strong disavowal, Hines also wanted to assure fans that there was nothing shady about the GoFundMe.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
6 Jan. 2026
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The department said the new $450 fee remains well below the government’s actual cost of processing renunciation requests.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
14 Mar. 2026
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British psychiatrist Humphry Osmond, who took part in a peyote ceremony with a First Nations group the Red Pheasant Band in Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1956, intuited the necessity of community, empathy, and ego renunciation during the psychedelic process.—
Erica Rex,
STAT,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Is this part of a process of grieving or one of denial?—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2026
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The judge’s denial was overturned on appeal.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
12 Apr. 2026
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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.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2026
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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
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The appellate judges sent what's been called the James class action back to the trial court for reconsideration.—
Alex Crippen,
CNBC,
11 Apr. 2026
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If her gait, as such, is being foisted on the audience for its box office appeal, permit me to suggest a reconsideration toward something more within the realm of natural.—
Joshua John Miller,
Vanity Fair,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Retraction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retraction. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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