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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

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

“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

The arbitrator ordered VA Secretary Denis McDonough to issue a notice that repudiates “surface bargaining and bad faith bargaining.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 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

Deutsche Welle issued a statement about its decision, saying it repudiates “any type of hate speech or incitement to violence.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2020

Science not only declares the ascription of disease to demoniacal possession or malignity to be an idle superstition now, but it equally repudiates the assumption of such a cause at any time.

From Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels

Similarly, the price of Russian bonds went up, not down, for months after the new Communist government repudiated Russia’s debt in 1918, virtually wiping it out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026

His approach to international relations also contrasts starkly with neighbouring regimes, who have cultivated close security ties with Russia and repudiated their previous close partnerships with France.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025

Some of those decisions aligned with some unitary executive claims, but others directly repudiated them.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2025

SCOTUS, of course, repudiated “separate but equal” in Brown v.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2025

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

Or that the leaders of Pfizer, Biogen, and hundreds of other companies signed onto the letter repudiating the ruling.

From Slate ● Apr. 12, 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