repudiate
Example Sentences
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To repudiate a doctrine accepted by the nation’s cultural arbiters gets you uninvited to their parties and called a fool.
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.
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
Some of those decisions aligned with some unitary executive claims, but others directly repudiated them.
From Salon
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
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