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
But he may be the first to attempt to disown his immediate predecessors as party leader.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2023
“I ... I am afraid. Ladon will stop me. My sisters, if they found out. . . they would disown me.”
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
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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
You can detect the traces of the predecessor in the inheritor, even if the inheritor disowns any knowledge of the inheritance.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 16, 2019
Nonetheless, Serpa eventually found himself sympathising with the character of Crowe - a washed-up musician who disowns his biggest album as "the sound of someone having his fingernails pulled out".
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2018
Nanjiani’s acceptance into his girlfriend’s family is equally fraught, even if no one disowns anyone.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2017
He thus silvers unpalatable truths, and although he disowns being a moralist, we generally see some substratum of earnestness peeping through the eddies of his fancy.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
When I told my mom that I wanted to tell the truth, she initially disowned me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
“Wagner went from a powerful special-forces group to a disowned network which seems to be falling into organized crime,” said Lou Osborn, an investigator with the Switzerland-based nonprofit Inpact, which tracks Wagner’s activities in Africa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
It was an early and remarkable demonstration of Marsh’s working-class roots — a thing he never disowned — as well as his feminism.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Her family tried to persuade her to come back, but when nothing came of it they disowned her, according to SK SOS.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025
In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated families.
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
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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
The Jewish Community of Guatemala has issued a statement disowning the sect, describing it as foreign to its own organisation.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024
The trend is so pronounced that some Chinese activists have taken to making preemptive “if I lose my freedom” videos, disowning any future “confessions” they might be forced to make.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 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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