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
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
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
Milo was sure they would be charitable if he went to them to apologize and recant and promised to fly eighty missions.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
“It recants some of the language in their letter, which I never adopted.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022
She fearfully recants, and is charged with false reporting.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2019
Consequently, sales of the fluoride-free toothpaste he promotes might decline if he recants his bogus claim that fluoridated water causes cancer and stunts the brains of children.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2018
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
Prevez later recanted the confession, his lawyer said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Capitalwatch has now recanted the entire report, the publisher told Barron’s, adding that it would issue “no more news updates” about AppLovin.
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
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
More than six years later, court records show Autry’s taking it all back and recanting his testimony, saying he made up the story to avoid spending life in prison.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
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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