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This signal turns to static if defendants are allowed to repudiate allegations to which they just agreed “without admitting or denying” these very same allegations.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

He argues that the city could run them—simply fold the MTA and let New York State repudiate the debt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

In response, Allister said: "If Claire is trying to pretend that I am insincere in my condemnation of violence then I utterly repudiate and indeed resent that comment."

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025

“Happy Days,” in a way, was the ’70s using the ’50s to repudiate the ’60s, or at least the divisive aftermath of them that fueled the one-liners in Archie Bunker’s living room.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2024

To him, Harrison represented the old Chicago of filth, smoke, and vice, everything the fair was designed to repudiate.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Mediaset Espana, which owns the news channel, issued a statement expressing its support for Ms Balado after the "absolutely intolerable situation" she suffered, and that it "categorically repudiates any form of harassment or aggression."

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2023

“The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela repudiates this grave violation of human rights against a Venezuelan citizen, invested as a diplomat and representative of our country before the world,” the statement said.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 16, 2021

Deutsche Welle issued a statement about its decision, saying it repudiates “any type of hate speech or incitement to violence.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2020

In a statement, Fabiani said the affidavit repudiates “all allegations” against O’Reilly.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2017

The mere conception of "spontaneous generation," rigidly interpreted, were a curiosity, coming wonderfully near a contradiction of scientific thought itself, which seeks for causes, and repudiates uncaused occurrences.

From The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Calderwood, Henry

Khamenei’s office later repudiated the comments as divisive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

His approach to international relations also contrasts starkly with neighbouring regimes, who have cultivated close security ties with Russia and repudiated their previous close partnerships with France.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025

Some of those decisions aligned with some unitary executive claims, but others directly repudiated them.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2025

Companies that struck partnerships with xAI, including Oracle and Polymarket, do not appear to have repudiated Grok’s Nazism, much less reconsidered their deals.

From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2025

The politicians who supplied funds for the war from exile had publicly repudiated the drastic aims of Colonel Aureliano Buendía, but even that withdrawal of authorization did not seem to bother him.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

So one of the appealing takeaways from the biodoc “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley” is a repudiating of the typical narrative of inescapable fate, instead pursuing the richness of a gifted artist’s ups and downs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025

In Stanley, Jackson broke decisively with this strategy, repudiating the judicial philosophy in question as a “narrow-minded” and “incessantly malleable” tool that lets biased judges project their own agenda onto the law.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2025

The researchers now wanted to know whether these individuals would justify their decision retrospectively by repudiating climate change.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2024

And Roberts, in particular, has made a point of repudiating the Korematsu decision that approved American detention camps.

From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2023

In other words, if he did not answer Burr’s challenge, he would be repudiating his well-known convictions, and in so doing, he would lose the respect of those political colleagues on whom his reputation depended.

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