recant
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It was an odd statement, as it didn’t quite recant the story, which has been thoroughly debunked.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
Baroness Lawrence said: "Any person who expresses views like these and does not recant is an obvious danger to society and must remain in custody."
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
Decades after she and her sister had become sensations, Maggie Fox admitted it had all been a hoax — only to recant the confession later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025
According to a lawsuit Floyd Bledsoe filed in 2016, Jefferson County authorities persuaded Tom Bledsoe to recant his confession and “framed” his brother by hiding evidence of his innocence.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2023
While Chapman had suggested that Myers must have been pressured to recant, the district attorney presented no actual evidence to support that claim, which made the judge's ruling hard to understand.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
“It recants some of the language in their letter, which I never adopted.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022
We do not forgive Humbert because he recants after it’s too late.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2020
Another is that any witness who recants has shown a willingness to lie under oath.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2017
In the recording, the victim recants his accusations and blamed the issue on his parents.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2017
Sometimes though, for the women, they’re for a nun who recants.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
“I respect the fact that you recanted everything you said,” he told Cohen, referencing his former fixer’s recent criticisms of Bragg and James.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
His guilt and the evidence on which he was convicted have been questioned over the years - namely after witnesses recanted their statements and another inmate later confessed to the murder.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Prevez later recanted the confession, his lawyer said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
They recanted their damning testimony about the sunken-ship broadcast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
Under Springer’s counsel, Ramsey quickly recanted his confession, insisting, “I never killed anyone.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
“DNA evidence, witnesses recanting their prior statements and polygraph testing all supported the ‘actual innocence’ claims of Jarvis Ballard,” district attorney Perry Nicosia wrote.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
Mandelson's comments go further than others in government in recanting previous criticism of Trump.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2025
That information, the recanting, was initially hidden from Glossip, and he only found out about it a few years ago.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2024
Several people who testified at his 2005 trial have since signed affidavits recanting their statements.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of events to make sense of her complicity.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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