disavow
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Paul opened the hearing by confronting Mullin about those remarks and asking him to disavow them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
The studios gamely went along, ruining the lives of a number of their creative talent who refused to disavow their pasts.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026
As Pepe spread into the more extreme corners of the internet, Mr Furie tried to disavow the frog, even killing him off in a comic strip.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025
The two seem to have accepted the theory’s ascendence and would rather apply it fairly than disavow it altogether.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2025
“We were wondering, after the end of An Imperial Affliction—’ “I disavow everything in that putrid novel,” Van Houten said, cutting me off.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
To be clear, Radan disavows any support for slavery or for any moral argument defending it, arguing for a sharp distinction between those questions and the legal, constitutional argument he advances.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2023
Which isn’t to say he disavows the importance of “3 Nights.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
He does not apologize for what he said in the episode — viewed more than 360,000 times — though he asserts that he disavows racism.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2023
Their latest collaboration once again disavows any traditional concept of genre.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2022
I know for a certainty that Lord North disavows that which I know he once gave him.
From George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by Roscoe, E. S.
The administration has disavowed any intention to interfere with the World Cup or the Olympics.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
He later defended his comments and said that he had been using hyperbole to make a point, adding that he disavowed racists and that media reports had ignored the context of his comments.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026
In both cases the comments were immediately disavowed by the White House.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2025
Mr. Haas has disavowed anything experimental about this music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
Stone himself eventually disavowed the technique as a useful therapy.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Mr. Steiner was put in the awkward position of disavowing his own private journal’s description of events.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
She resists the idea of entirely disavowing the life she led with her ex-husband.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
The defense had many lines of attack available Thursday: Blanche pressed Cohen about disavowing his 2018 guilty pleas for personal financial crimes and tax evasion related to the hush-money payoff.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
“What the voters deserve is clarity, which means disavowing this endorsement,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
“Oh, no,” we said, disavowing her entirely, as any sensible person would.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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