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disavowal

[dis-uh-vou-uhl] / ˌdɪs əˈvaʊ əl /






NOUN
negative
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It is literature about a disavowal of literature: an illusion of a book that cannot be written.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 26, 2026

“It’s been sad to see the disavowal of every policy position he ever stood for,” says a former senior White House official from the first term who worked with Hassett.

From Barron's Dec. 11, 2025

Even with ACEP’s disavowal, courts may be reluctant to reopen resolved cases, said Jim Davy, a civil rights lawyer in Philadelphia.

From Scientific American Oct. 16, 2023

Without such disavowal, the court said in a unanimous decision this May, “Fikre remained stigmatized ‘as a known or suspected terrorist.’”

From Washington Post Oct. 16, 2022

He could not, he explained, “without manifest impropriety, make the avowal or disavowal you seem to think necessary.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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