recant
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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
She withdrew the allegation later, but Trump's biographer points out that her alimony payments were likely in danger if she did not recant.
From Salon ● May 1, 2023
She’d had to tell him the charges she’d made and tried to recant when she was begging for his assistance.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
“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
He made references to “Frank Pentangeli” - a character in the film “The Godfather Part II” who recants his testimony to Congress about a mobster amid witness intimidation.
From Reuters ● Nov. 7, 2019
She fearfully recants, and is charged with false reporting.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2019
Sometimes though, for the women, they’re for a nun who recants.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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
Capitalwatch has now recanted the entire report, the publisher told Barron’s, adding that it would issue “no more news updates” about AppLovin.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 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
The incident brought public scrutiny to the university’s police department but ended when Perkins recanted the story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025
By then, Morrison had recanted his confession, shifting his allegiance yet again in the hope of securing compensation from Hale.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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
As for Voirrey, she never changed her story on Gef and died in 2005 without recanting.
From National Geographic ● Sep. 19, 2023
His team has also released screenshots of text messages that purportedly show the accuser recanting her allegations and appearing to admit fault in the altercation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
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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