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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

He argues that the city could run them—simply fold the MTA and let New York State repudiate the debt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 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

In seeming to repudiate capitalism’s imperatives, its success can seem surprising, even mystifying.

From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2023

“So long as Mr. Train speaks nobly for the woman,” Anthony wrote, “why should we repudiate his services?”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

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

“President Jair Bolsonaro vehemently repudiates the acts of vandalism and depredation of public property committed by those infiltrating the demonstration,” Mr. Wassef said.

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 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

Spencer further expressly repudiates empirical Utilitarianism, and denies the assertion of Mr. Hutton that he by implication recognizes no parentage for morals beyond that of the accumulation and organization of the facts of experience.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams

It speaks to the central paradox of our national origins: A revolution that repudiated allegiance to the British Constitution was nevertheless vitally inspired by that very constitutional inheritance.

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

Winnie had been invited to open the annual conference of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, and at my instigation she repudiated these rumors in no uncertain terms.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

That debate over the declaration helped engender the equal citizenship amendments added to the 1789 Constitution at the Civil War’s end—specifically, as the Supreme Court recounts, in the 14th Amendment’s first sentence repudiating Dred Scott.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

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

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