repudiate
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This signal turns to static if defendants are allowed to repudiate allegations to which they just agreed “without admitting or denying” these very same allegations.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
To repudiate a doctrine accepted by the nation’s cultural arbiters gets you uninvited to their parties and called a fool.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
In response, Allister said: "If Claire is trying to pretend that I am insincere in my condemnation of violence then I utterly repudiate and indeed resent that comment."
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025
In seeming to repudiate capitalism’s imperatives, its success can seem surprising, even mystifying.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
This left me no course but to regret that I had been “betrayed into a warmth which,” and on the whole to repudiate, as untenable, the idea that I was to be found anywhere.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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Mediaset Espana, which owns the news channel, issued a statement expressing its support for Ms Balado after the "absolutely intolerable situation" she suffered, and that it "categorically repudiates any form of harassment or aggression."
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2023
“The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela repudiates this grave violation of human rights against a Venezuelan citizen, invested as a diplomat and representative of our country before the world,” the statement said.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 16, 2021
Deutsche Welle issued a statement about its decision, saying it repudiates “any type of hate speech or incitement to violence.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2020
In a statement, Fabiani said the affidavit repudiates “all allegations” against O’Reilly.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2017
He repudiates the idea of an abstract self apart from desire.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
The French Revolution would deepen his own radicalism, and Richmond, in his more conservative later years, repudiated him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Without the old-claim bar, federal prisoners are no longer automatically foreclosed from re-presenting claims that were previously rejected under legal assumptions the Supreme Court has since repudiated.
From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2026
His approach to international relations also contrasts starkly with neighbouring regimes, who have cultivated close security ties with Russia and repudiated their previous close partnerships with France.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025
In 2017, his conviction was reversed after experts repudiated some of their testimony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024
From the perspective south of the Potomac, of course, these were the institutions and symbols the American Revolution had supposedly repudiated forever.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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The Vietnam War was raging, there were protests in the streets and their own kids were repudiating many of their values.
From Salon ● May 6, 2026
So one of the appealing takeaways from the biodoc “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley” is a repudiating of the typical narrative of inescapable fate, instead pursuing the richness of a gifted artist’s ups and downs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
The researchers now wanted to know whether these individuals would justify their decision retrospectively by repudiating climate change.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2024
A decade ago, in 2013, demos for what listeners assumed to be Paul’s debut record leaked and he withdrew further, repudiating the collection of songs.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
In other words, if he did not answer Burr’s challenge, he would be repudiating his well-known convictions, and in so doing, he would lose the respect of those political colleagues on whom his reputation depended.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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