disown
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Just disown it and make a spectacle of disowning it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
“My family would disown me,” he told the network in an email.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
“His view is if it’s good for him at that moment, he’ll do it, and then if something bad happens, he’ll disown any responsibility for it,” the former governor said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
Rishi Sunak had to disown them publicly, insisting Ukraine had always been grateful.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2023
She had taken a job as a secretary and was living at home because her father had threatened to disown her if she moved out on her own.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
If the ships are falsely flagged or flagged to a country that disowns them, the tankers can be subject to U.S. jurisdiction while in international waters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
When Guida comes home alone, without her sailor but great with child, she is greeted with fury by her father, who disowns her, while her mother cowers in the background.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 13, 2019
Nanjiani’s acceptance into his girlfriend’s family is equally fraught, even if no one disowns anyone.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2017
The new perpetual secretary of the Academie disowns the Druon changes.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2016
Do we not see that nature, in all her operations, disowns the visionary basis upon which the funding system is built?
From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Thomas Paine
The King has five sons, but four by his second marriage were disowned in 1996 and have lived since then with their mother in the US.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
About 10 years ago, when he first wanted to go public with the truth, his mother disowned him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
In her memoir, Erivo writes at length about her estrangement from her father, who disowned her when she was 16 after an argument in a London train station.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2025
But uncertainty surrounds the royal succession, with no public announcement of an heir to the current king -- among his seven children, four have been officially disowned.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025
“Me and Penelope supported Marion for ten years after his father disowned him. Marion was a mess right up until he died, but what can I say. His sister loved him.”
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
He was born in Los Angeles to a white American mother and a Japanese father, the latter effectively disowning him while he was still in the womb.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
The families of both Abu Shabab and Al-Astal issued statements disowning them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2025
Supporting her now does not require disowning a single position.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2022
However, the charity insisted it was not "disowning Sir Winston" and said its former name was "confusing to people and did not explain what we do".
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2021
Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of events to make sense of her complicity.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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