countermand

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My personal experience countermands John McWhorter’s contention, in his Aug. 2 review of Katherine D. Kinzler’s “How You Say It,” that “the way we talk is largely out of our control.”

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2020

Its chilly stillness countermands the visual delight of Walker Evans, Robert Frank and other earlier photographers, but it also negates the diaristic intimacy of “American Surfaces.”

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2017

Countless episodes have created�and to some extent justified�an impression that Magsaysay, for all his forthright talk, wavers in the clinches, vacillates, makes and countermands and remakes decisions.

From Time Magazine Archive

But that palliative countermands all the earlier sage advice proffered by that selfsame publication, and by this one and by every other voice that lobs words against tanks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Griffin spurs toward his pieces, countermands his previous order, and firing is resumed in the old direction.

From The Great Conspiracy, Volume 3 by Logan, John Alexander