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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
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While music alone cannot deliver accountability, the law can ensure that violence does not disappear into denial or historical amnesia.—
Christina Hioureas,
Rolling Stone,
22 Mar. 2026
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At one point Gentile agreed to submit to a polygraph examination, presumably to demonstrate his denials were truthful.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
22 Mar. 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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Legislators on the committee later agreed to grant what’s called reconsideration, meaning there is a chance, albeit slim, that Strickland’s Senate Bill 1035 could be brought up again.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
23 Mar. 2026
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The final proposal was made by Smith, who wanted to send nearly all of the proposal back to committee for reconsideration except the $1,500 donation restriction on those doing business with the city.—
R. Christian Smith,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Retraction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retraction. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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