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disavowal

[dis-uh-vau-uhl] / ˌdɪs əˈvaʊ əl /






NOUN
negative
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Europe has sweltered through one heat wave after another this summer, and its green disavowal of air conditioning comes at an economic cost.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

“It’s been sad to see the disavowal of every policy position he ever stood for,” says a former senior White House official from the first term who worked with Hassett.

From Barron's ● Dec. 11, 2025

Even with ACEP’s disavowal, courts may be reluctant to reopen resolved cases, said Jim Davy, a civil rights lawyer in Philadelphia.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 16, 2023

Neither you nor your family members interpret any of those as a disavowal of kinship.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2023

Now that they were shaheed, packing up and running was an even worse affront, a betrayal, a disavowal of the sacrifice her sons had made.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini


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