disavow

Paul opened the hearing by confronting Mullin about those remarks and asking him to disavow them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

Nobody is asking anybody to disavow their beliefs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

As Pepe spread into the more extreme corners of the internet, Mr Furie tried to disavow the frog, even killing him off in a comic strip.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025

The two seem to have accepted the theory’s ascendence and would rather apply it fairly than disavow it altogether.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2025

It aggravated me sometimes no end, but it was also what I could never disavow in Barack.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

The Chabad movement disavows any teaching that Schneerson is the messiah.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2024

To be clear, Radan disavows any support for slavery or for any moral argument defending it, arguing for a sharp distinction between those questions and the legal, constitutional argument he advances.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2023

He also disavows the notion that he is associated with the militia, repeatedly joking he wouldn’t qualify because he has been known to shave his legs, a habit he picked up from triathlons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2022

It celebrates women’s achievements, which is great, but, in a really troubling way, it disavows the very sentiments that have propelled feminism for decades: anger, disappointment, rage, critique.

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2022

"Hmelnitski disavows them, and says that they plunder in spite of his orders; if he didn't do this, no one would believe in his loyalty and obedience to the king."

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

She has been disavowed by lawmakers across the Democratic spectrum, from Blue Dog centrist Rep. Josh Gottheimer to democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

From Slate ● May 22, 2026

Bessent quickly disavowed the idea, but Trump last summer told allies he liked the concept of announcing a successor early.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

In both cases the comments were immediately disavowed by the White House.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2025

The paper has been retracted by the Lancet, 10 of its 12 authors have disavowed its findings, and Wakefield was stripped of his medical license in the U.K.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2025

I was so hurt and humiliated that I disavowed all relations with Young.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

She resists the idea of entirely disavowing the life she led with her ex-husband.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

Instead of disavowing them, she answered that she wouldn’t post such remarks today because she has “matured.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025

The defense had many lines of attack available Thursday: Blanche pressed Cohen about disavowing his 2018 guilty pleas for personal financial crimes and tax evasion related to the hush-money payoff.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024

“This is why we pushed to put out a stronger statement explicitly disavowing that paper,” Naples-Mitchell said.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

“Oh, no,” we said, disavowing her entirely, as any sensible person would.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson