repudiate

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

Kavazović and Rosensaft committed to collaborate in times of crisis, maintain consistent and compassionate channels of communication, remember and commemorate the victims of past genocides and repudiate all forms of bigotry.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2024

“I can not shoulder the responsibility of electing officers who publicly repudiate the principles of the society,” Foster said.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

The arbitrator ordered VA Secretary Denis McDonough to issue a notice that repudiates “surface bargaining and bad faith bargaining.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023

"Unilever rejects completely and repudiates unequivocally any form of discrimination or intolerance," the company said.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2022

“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

Enrique Tarrio, chairman of the administrative chapter of the Proud Boys, maintained that the group repudiates hate and racism and pointed out it has ordered white supremacists to leave its events in the past.

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2018

Smith, who had been passed over on account of his youth, which repudiates all these as unsupported novelties and restores the true Mormonism of the founder.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz

Similarly, the price of Russian bonds went up, not down, for months after the new Communist government repudiated Russia’s debt in 1918, virtually wiping it out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 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

Some of those decisions aligned with some unitary executive claims, but others directly repudiated them.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2025

SCOTUS, of course, repudiated “separate but equal” in Brown v.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2025

I had myself been apprenticed by my former visits to this watching horror; and yet I, who had up to an hour ago repudiated the proofs, felt my heart sink within me.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

In Stanley, Jackson broke decisively with this strategy, repudiating the judicial philosophy in question as a “narrow-minded” and “incessantly malleable” tool that lets biased judges project their own agenda onto the law.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 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

And Roberts, in particular, has made a point of repudiating the Korematsu decision that approved American detention camps.

From Salon ● Nov. 15, 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