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Recent Examples of retraction
Some companies have strategically deployed offensive tactics and obtained immediate results including short-sellers deleting a report and/or issuing a retraction.
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Tim Reynolds, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
About 9% of domestic box production capacity is set to shut down, which is the steepest retraction for the industry since the 2008 financial crisis, Virginia Tech economist Jadrian Wooten wrote earlier this month.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
The authors agreed to the retraction, calling the errors honest mistakes.
—New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2025
The episode walks viewers from initial flights on the aluminium frame, through the carbon-fibre upgrade, wheel retraction and steering tests, to final flights after iterative weight reduction and control tuning.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
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Tim Reynolds, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
About 9% of domestic box production capacity is set to shut down, which is the steepest retraction for the industry since the 2008 financial crisis, Virginia Tech economist Jadrian Wooten wrote earlier this month.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
The authors agreed to the retraction, calling the errors honest mistakes.
—New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2025
The episode walks viewers from initial flights on the aluminium frame, through the carbon-fibre upgrade, wheel retraction and steering tests, to final flights after iterative weight reduction and control tuning.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retraction
Noun
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Mamdani initially tried to stay on-message, offering a quick disavowal of an unsavory association or controversial past statement and pivoting back his agenda.—
Ben Adler,
USA Today,
2 Nov. 2025
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As the administration’s immigration enforcement continues to provoke a national debate, the rare public disavowal by Miller’s cousin underscores how the far-reaching effects of federal policy can reverberate through private lives, fracturing even close family bonds.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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The Sweet Dove Died is considered Pym’s most Jamesian work and there are inflections of the Master in the themes of falling out of love, renunciation, and collecting—the pursuit of beauty falling short.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
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Oddly, the move comes not as a renunciation but as a new adventure.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
15 Aug. 2025
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The denial letter said Farzam was convicted of making a false statement to the DMV and a registration violation.—
Ray Sanchez,
CNN Money,
2 Nov. 2025
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Fuentes has espoused Holocaust denial and white nationalist ideology.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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But communal norms have no room for the unique nature of their relationship; having learned of the friendship, Kammo’s aunt forbids the girl from associating with the Muslim Hamida, and this rupture reignites Hamida’s previous trauma of repudiation.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
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Garcia argues that the successful repudiation of the library crackdown is evidence that the city council’s right-wing approach doesn’t fully represent residents’ values.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
20 Oct. 2025
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The board asked the applicant to return with more refined renderings, reconsideration of the roof decks and more information about the design of the side yards.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Oct. 2025
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Harvey might have reasoned that the arbitration should move deliberately given that both Flores and the NFL have flooded the dockets of the Southern District of New York and Second Circuit with appeals, petitions for reconsideration and other demands.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Retraction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retraction. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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