recant
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Years later, he said he was pressured by the FBI to recant his story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025
Members of the congregation were urged to publicly recant their sins.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2024
The most recent petitions discussing Autry’s decision to recant his testimony were filed in Hardin County Circuit Court on Jan. 22, based on what Adams’ lawyer refers to as new evidence.
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
Editorials would demand that he either recant or retire from public life.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
“It recants some of the language in their letter, which I never adopted.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022
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
Unless Ayala recants her statement not to seek the death penalty, none of the cases will be returned to her office, Tupps said.
From Reuters ● Aug. 31, 2017
Another is that any witness who recants has shown a willingness to lie under oath.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2017
Sometimes though, for the women, they’re for a nun who recants.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
When war was declared, David recanted his previously strong pro-German views and toed a patriotic line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Capitalwatch fully recanted its report alleging AppLovin served as a “laundering machine.”
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
Three days later, he recanted that confession and spent the rest of his life professing his innocence, claiming that he was made a patsy for the real assassin, a man he called “Raoul.”
From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2025
But in a 2008 interview with a US historian, she recanted the statement, reportedly saying: "That part's not true."
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025
“It seems Nina Zenik has recanted her statements. She will face charges of perjury.”
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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
Haddish and Spears denied this and less than a month later, the Jane Doe asked a judge to dismiss the case and released a statement recanting the accusation.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024
Harper has since signed an affidavit recanting, saying officers threatened to send him to prison if he didn’t help corroborate their theories about the case.
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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