as in to cancel
to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to)
the judge revoked the jail sentence when the defendant promised to do community service instead
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Recent Examples of revoke
South Africa couldn’t revoke the payout because the underlying disease — an economy that has hardly grown for more than a decade alongside unemployment at more than 30% — was never cured.
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Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 8 May 2026
Customs and Border Protection has said that a criminal charge is not required for someone's visa to be revoked.
—ABC News, 8 May 2026
Under the new policy, the health department will inform the State Department of all past-due payments of more than $2,500 and parents in that group with passports will have their documents revoked, the State Department said.
—Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
That would include forcing OpenAI to revert to a nonprofit structure and revoking Altman and Brockman’s board positions.
—Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 7 May 2026
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Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 8 May 2026
Customs and Border Protection has said that a criminal charge is not required for someone's visa to be revoked.
—ABC News, 8 May 2026
Under the new policy, the health department will inform the State Department of all past-due payments of more than $2,500 and parents in that group with passports will have their documents revoked, the State Department said.
—Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
That would include forcing OpenAI to revert to a nonprofit structure and revoking Altman and Brockman’s board positions.
—Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 7 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for revoke
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There’s a report in Bloomberg recently that half of data center plans are kind of stalled or being canceled because of material issues and things like that.—
Fortune Editors,
Fortune,
10 May 2026
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In the preceding weeks, at least 20 of North Carolina’s 115 public school districts canceled Friday classes due to a high number of teachers requesting leave to participate in the protest.—
Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
10 May 2026
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As those commitments are abandoned, there’s a financial price to pay, including more than $9 billion of write-downs for Honda, which made its first operating loss in the company’s history.—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
15 May 2026
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Famously, many migration projects end up in some sort of failure—behind schedule, over budget, incomplete or abandoned.—
Thomas Berndorfer,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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What was old will be scrapped and sold for parts.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
9 May 2026
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But that can also cause increases in maintenance costs as well as the likelihood that a vehicle needs repairs that exceed its value or has to be scrapped altogether.—
Michael Wayland,
CNBC,
9 May 2026
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What did happen was that the Ravens rescinded the Crosby trade and immediately signed Hendrickson afterward.—
Saad Yousuf,
New York Times,
15 May 2026
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No explanation was given in McDonald’s court filings as to why the contract was rescinded.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 May 2026
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The pilots acted quickly to abort the takeoff and avert a crash.—
The Denver Post Editorial Board,
Denver Post,
13 May 2026
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This work kept the first moon landing from being aborted, even though the onboard computer was overloaded.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
12 May 2026
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The directive repealed federal guidance that schools work to avoid racial disparities in school punishments.—
Stacker,
Hartford Courant,
9 May 2026
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Szabo, the city administrative officer, issued a grim warning this week about the proposal heading to the November ballot that would repeal the city’s business tax, depriving the city of about $860 million per year.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2026
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“Revoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revoke. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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