repudiate

This signal turns to static if defendants are allowed to repudiate allegations to which they just agreed “without admitting or denying” these very same allegations.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

To repudiate a doctrine accepted by the nation’s cultural arbiters gets you uninvited to their parties and called a fool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

In response, Allister said: "If Claire is trying to pretend that I am insincere in my condemnation of violence then I utterly repudiate and indeed resent that comment."

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025

“Happy Days,” in a way, was the ’70s using the ’50s to repudiate the ’60s, or at least the divisive aftermath of them that fueled the one-liners in Archie Bunker’s living room.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2024

To him, Harrison represented the old Chicago of filth, smoke, and vice, everything the fair was designed to repudiate.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Mediaset Espana, which owns the news channel, issued a statement expressing its support for Ms Balado after the "absolutely intolerable situation" she suffered, and that it "categorically repudiates any form of harassment or aggression."

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2023

Mediaset Espana, which owns Cuatro, said it "categorically repudiates any form of harassment or aggression. We fully support Isa Balado, reporter for 'En boca de todos', after the absolutely intolerable situation she has suffered today."

From Reuters ● Sep. 12, 2023

“The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela repudiates this grave violation of human rights against a Venezuelan citizen, invested as a diplomat and representative of our country before the world,” the statement said.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 16, 2021

“This report clearly repudiates unsubstantiated allegations repeatedly made by some legislators,” Northam said Monday in a written statement.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2021

For this latter repudiates indignantly all need for concession or privilege to wifehood or to motherhood, equally with womanhood.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy

The French Revolution would deepen his own radicalism, and Richmond, in his more conservative later years, repudiated him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Without the old-claim bar, federal prisoners are no longer automatically foreclosed from re-presenting claims that were previously rejected under legal assumptions the Supreme Court has since repudiated.

From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2026

Asked about his claim – repudiated by Israel - that thousands of lorries were waiting on the border to enter Gaza, Mr Fletcher repeated that he especially needed to be "careful and really precise".

From BBC ● May 30, 2025

In 2017, his conviction was reversed after experts repudiated some of their testimony.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024

I had myself been apprenticed by my former visits to this watching horror; and yet I, who had up to an hour ago repudiated the proofs, felt my heart sink within me.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

The Vietnam War was raging, there were protests in the streets and their own kids were repudiating many of their values.

From Salon ● May 6, 2026

So one of the appealing takeaways from the biodoc “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley” is a repudiating of the typical narrative of inescapable fate, instead pursuing the richness of a gifted artist’s ups and downs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025

The researchers now wanted to know whether these individuals would justify their decision retrospectively by repudiating climate change.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2024

“All citizens of Mississippi regardless of race, creed, or color are repudiating the criminal acts of these rogue deputies,” the attorneys said.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

In other words, if he did not answer Burr’s challenge, he would be repudiating his well-known convictions, and in so doing, he would lose the respect of those political colleagues on whom his reputation depended.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis