repudiated

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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

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

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2024

He never repudiated any of those early statements, and Straussians went to some lengths to conceal from critical scholars the more controversial writings in his collected papers.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2024

The politicians who supplied funds for the war from exile had publicly repudiated the drastic aims of Colonel Aureliano Buendía, but even that withdrawal of authorization did not seem to bother him.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez