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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Autry met with Dr. Katie Spirko, a forensic and clinical neuropsychologist, and told her that he was recanting his trial testimony.
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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