recant
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She said she decided to take responsibility for her lies in the Cox matter, and hired an attorney to formally recant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024
Members of the congregation were urged to publicly recant their sins.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2024
Generally, it’s unusual for a cooperating witness to recant testimony years after a trial.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
She withdrew the allegation later, but Trump's biographer points out that her alimony payments were likely in danger if she did not recant.
From Salon ● May 1, 2023
Ralph Meyers took the stand before this Court, swore to tell the truth and proceeded to recant most, if not all, of the relevant portions of his testimony at trial.
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
He made references to “Frank Pentangeli” - a character in the film “The Godfather Part II” who recants his testimony to Congress about a mobster amid witness intimidation.
From Reuters ● Nov. 7, 2019
She fearfully recants, and is charged with false reporting.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2019
Faced with doubting, undermining and hounding, Marie recants her story, but the narrative only gets more complicated from there.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2019
Sometimes though, for the women, they’re for a nun who recants.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Maines countered that she was responding to current events, but she apologized to the fans who felt hurt — and then she recanted.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
“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
The church had ended the temporal practice of polygamy in 1890, but it had never recanted the doctrine.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
“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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100 SAT words Beginning with "R"
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