disavow

Example Sentences

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She would even appear on Fox programs after a Fox Corp. senior vice president said he had privately begged the White House to disavow Powell.

From Washington Post

The decision comes eight decades after The Times viciously campaigned to incarcerate Japanese Americans during the war, questioning their loyalty — an action disavowed six years ago with a formal editorial apology.

From Los Angeles Times

That’s just three days after public revelations that the Republican’s longtime accountants had disavowed a decade’s worth of his financial statements amid allegations by New York’s attorney general that they had exaggerated his wealth.

From Seattle Times

While the group’s leaders disavow racism, some members have ties to groups that espouse white-nationalist rhetoric common among hate groups.

From Washington Post

Russian hockey players must expressly disavow all support for Mr. Putin.

From Washington Post