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Recent Examples of retraction
The unraveling of climate catastrophism got another jolt recently with the formal retraction of a high-profile 2024 study published in the journal .
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MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
Nature posted a retraction of it Wednesday.
—CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
The tests successfully demonstrated deployment, retraction, and stable energy conversion.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 13 Nov. 2025
Trump’s legal team has given the BBC until Friday to respond to its $1B legal threat, demanding an apology and full retraction.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025
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MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
Nature posted a retraction of it Wednesday.
—CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
The tests successfully demonstrated deployment, retraction, and stable energy conversion.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 13 Nov. 2025
Trump’s legal team has given the BBC until Friday to respond to its $1B legal threat, demanding an apology and full retraction.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025
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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
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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 2025 version manages just eight mentions, including a sharp disavowal.—
Newsweek Editors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Dec. 2025
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Keep in mind, though, that renunciation is considered permanent.—
Liz Weston,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Feb. 2026
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Annual renunciations surged to a record high of 6,705 in 2020, with numbers remaining elevated ever since, according to immigration services company Boundless.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
27 Jan. 2026
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The spiral of events that follow ups the pathos while quietly commenting on rigid patriarchal rules, male privilege, sanctimonious moral posturing, the denial of women’s bodily autonomy and contempt for otherness, things all still very much with us today.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Feb. 2026
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As her power-hungry characters go through the five stages of grief, denial is the hardest one to let go of.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2026
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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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But the result in Canton has been the same as in Quincy — an utter repudiation of the tawdry good-old-boy crew.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
14 Jan. 2026
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The endangerment finding was specifically targeted for reconsideration in the conservative government playbook Project 2025.—
John Moritz,
Hartford Courant,
13 Feb. 2026
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Pushing the origin of reliable rotary drilling back by more than two millennia forces a reconsideration of what Predynastic Egyptians were capable of, at a time well before the pyramids or the great dynastic building projects.—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Retraction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retraction. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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