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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

It’s also unclear why Autry would recant his testimony now.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

He had refused to recant his heresies, including his belief in other inhabited worlds.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

“It recants some of the language in their letter, which I never adopted.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022

As soon as the detectives leave, and Dassey is able to speak to his mother alone, he promptly recants, telling her he only confessed because the officers got inside his head.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2018

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

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

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

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

The incident brought public scrutiny to the university’s police department but ended when Perkins recanted the story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 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

Majors’ attorney, Priya Chaudhry, told the Los Angeles Times on Sunday that her team has obtained “two written statements from the woman recanting these allegations.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2023

Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of events to make sense of her complicity.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver