recant

It was an odd statement, as it didn’t quite recant the story, which has been thoroughly debunked.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Baroness Lawrence said: "Any person who expresses views like these and does not recant is an obvious danger to society and must remain in custody."

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

She said she decided to take responsibility for her lies in the Cox matter, and hired an attorney to formally recant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024

The most recent petitions discussing Autry’s decision to recant his testimony were filed in Hardin County Circuit Court on Jan. 22, based on what Adams’ lawyer refers to as new evidence.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

Ralph Meyers took the stand before this Court, swore to tell the truth and proceeded to recant most, if not all, of the relevant portions of his testimony at trial.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

“It recants some of the language in their letter, which I never adopted.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022

We do not forgive Humbert because he recants after it’s too late.

From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2020

As soon as the detectives leave, and Dassey is able to speak to his mother alone, he promptly recants, telling her he only confessed because the officers got inside his head.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2018

In the recording, the victim recants his accusations and blamed the issue on his parents.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2017

Sometimes though, for the women, they’re for a nun who recants.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

His guilt and the evidence on which he was convicted have been questioned over the years - namely after witnesses recanted their statements and another inmate later confessed to the murder.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

When war was declared, David recanted his previously strong pro-German views and toed a patriotic line.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

Three days later, he recanted that confession and spent the rest of his life professing his innocence, claiming that he was made a patsy for the real assassin, a man he called “Raoul.”

From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2025

Attorney General Pam Bondi said she had valuable and salient Epstein information sitting on her desk, but she later recanted when she was apparently told to do so.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2025

Step-by-step, in a quiet monotone voice, Burkhart recanted.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

“DNA evidence, witnesses recanting their prior statements and polygraph testing all supported the ‘actual innocence’ claims of Jarvis Ballard,” district attorney Perry Nicosia wrote.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

Mandelson's comments go further than others in government in recanting previous criticism of Trump.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2025

That information, the recanting, was initially hidden from Glossip, and he only found out about it a few years ago.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2024

More than six years later, court records show Autry’s taking it all back and recanting his testimony, saying he made up the story to avoid spending life in prison.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of events to make sense of her complicity.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver