disown
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Just disown it and make a spectacle of disowning it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
"We disown his actions and we disown what he has done in every single way."
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
“You don’t know me, fool / You disown me, cool,” Ice-T snarls in the 1988 hip-hop gang treatise “Colors.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
“My family would disown me,” he told the network in an email.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
“Would you disown me, your honest and true Ophelia?”
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
If the ships are falsely flagged or flagged to a country that disowns them, the tankers can be subject to U.S. jurisdiction while in international waters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
When Guida comes home alone, without her sailor but great with child, she is greeted with fury by her father, who disowns her, while her mother cowers in the background.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 13, 2019
Nanjiani’s acceptance into his girlfriend’s family is equally fraught, even if no one disowns anyone.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2017
The new perpetual secretary of the Academie disowns the Druon changes.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2016
Idly he disowns the blow's effect, because he felt no blow, and indeed, received no blow.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
When I told my mom that I wanted to tell the truth, she initially disowned me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
“Wagner went from a powerful special-forces group to a disowned network which seems to be falling into organized crime,” said Lou Osborn, an investigator with the Switzerland-based nonprofit Inpact, which tracks Wagner’s activities in Africa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
It was an early and remarkable demonstration of Marsh’s working-class roots — a thing he never disowned — as well as his feminism.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has effectively been fired out of a cannon — disowned by the Royal Family and the political classes, and stripped of his titles.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
“Me and Penelope supported Marion for ten years after his father disowned him. Marion was a mess right up until he died, but what can I say. His sister loved him.”
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
Just disown it and make a spectacle of disowning it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The families of both Abu Shabab and Al-Astal issued statements disowning them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2025
The Jewish Community of Guatemala has issued a statement disowning the sect, describing it as foreign to its own organisation.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024
The trend is so pronounced that some Chinese activists have taken to making preemptive “if I lose my freedom” videos, disowning any future “confessions” they might be forced to make.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2021
I heard women reveal to men that the children they’d raised were not theirs and elderly parents inform grown sons and daughters that they were disowning them.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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