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Recent Examples of retraction
The lawsuit, filed in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Florida, seeks unspecified damages and a public retraction of statements Sun made on social media about World Liberty Financial.
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Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 4 May 2026
The retraction notice received minimal attention until it was shared on Bluesky and LinkedIn by Williamson.
—Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 4 May 2026
Alongside its request for a retraction, the SPLC filed a motion asking for grand jury transcripts to make sure false statements weren't used to secure the indictment.
—ABC News, 28 Apr. 2026
Both crewmembers then focused on the aircraft flight path, and the retraction of the landing gear was inadvertently omitted.
—Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
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Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 4 May 2026
The retraction notice received minimal attention until it was shared on Bluesky and LinkedIn by Williamson.
—Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 4 May 2026
Alongside its request for a retraction, the SPLC filed a motion asking for grand jury transcripts to make sure false statements weren't used to secure the indictment.
—ABC News, 28 Apr. 2026
Both crewmembers then focused on the aircraft flight path, and the retraction of the landing gear was inadvertently omitted.
—Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retraction
Noun
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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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Carney is a moralist, a filmmaker of fidelity—and of renunciation, depicting the romantic near-misses and what-ifs that his characters leave behind.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
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The numbers from the report are compiled from citizenship renunciation records, overseas residency registrations and survey data tracking American interest in living overseas.—
Alex Ledsom,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected lawsuits challenging several permits granted by the OPSB, but hasn't yet ruled on multiple cases brought by developers seeking to reverse an OPSB denial.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
31 May 2026
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Rivals such as China and Russia continue developing advanced anti-access and area-denial systems that threaten traditional airborne surveillance aircraft.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
30 May 2026
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The results were widely interpreted as a repudiation of Labour's performance to date by British voters.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
12 May 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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Undoubtedly, these reconsiderations have been a largely positive exercise, foregrounding not only more equitable but more accurate and more engaging histories, and opening gallery and museum doors to previously excluded artists (even if many have suffered with the ups and downs of speculation).—
Katy Siegel,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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The president in Hungary, though a largely figurehead role, can refer laws back to parliament for reconsideration or forward legislation to the Constitutional Court, potentially slowing or blocking Magyar’s reform agenda.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
1 June 2026
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“Retraction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retraction. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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