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disavow

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Then she won, and Republicans tried to put a good face on it — even falsely claiming she had disavowed QAnon and suggesting the country should move on.

We call on leaders from across the political spectrum, including the President of the United States, to disavow false and dangerous narratives, and encourage their supporters to do so as well.

Hailed on its launch in 2012 — not long after the Penguin algorithm update — as the search engine’s “best spam reporting tool yet”, disavow links allowed webmasters to instruct Google to ignore all links from certain domains.

He disavowed the hateful messages attributed to him and said he plans to consult with attorneys about his firing and the social media account.

By a healthy margin, they approved a measure eliminating the 30-foot coastal height limit in the Midway district – a specific change Faulconer himself disavowed in a 2013 interview with Voice of San Diego.

Nor will the CIA disavow those controversial efforts entirely.

To disavow those moral responsibilities, our tradition suggests, is to not be truly free.

Rather than today's young women feeling like the heirs to a glorious legacy, they disavow those who came before.

I can completely relate to his struggle of not wanting to disavow his Jewish identity for the sake of his gay identity.

There are some pieces of themselves that politicians simply cannot disavow.

I wish to disavow any compliment I may have appeared to pay that company in my telegram, for I think they did their bare duty.

I do not altogether disavow the title, but I understand it to mean "inquirer."

The Prime Minister would never have had the courage to disavow his colleague openly.

Neither do they disavow what has come to them through immigration and does not originally belong to their own country.

Berkeley had been unwilling to disavow his loyalty to the Crown in 1652 and he was not prepared to do so now.

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On this page you'll find 46 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to disavow, such as: contradict, disclaim, disown, forswear, impugn, and repudiate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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