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repudiate

[ri-pyoo-dee-eyt] / rɪˈpju diˌeɪt /


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This signal turns to static if defendants are allowed to repudiate allegations to which they just agreed “without admitting or denying” these very same allegations.

From MarketWatch Jun. 17, 2026

To repudiate a doctrine accepted by the nation’s cultural arbiters gets you uninvited to their parties and called a fool.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 12, 2026

In response, Allister said: "If Claire is trying to pretend that I am insincere in my condemnation of violence then I utterly repudiate and indeed resent that comment."

From BBC Jun. 10, 2025

Kavazović and Rosensaft committed to collaborate in times of crisis, maintain consistent and compassionate channels of communication, remember and commemorate the victims of past genocides and repudiate all forms of bigotry.

From Seattle Times Jan. 27, 2024

This left me no course but to regret that I had been “betrayed into a warmth which,” and on the whole to repudiate, as untenable, the idea that I was to be found anywhere.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

The arbitrator ordered VA Secretary Denis McDonough to issue a notice that repudiates “surface bargaining and bad faith bargaining.”

From Washington Post Apr. 14, 2023

"Unilever rejects completely and repudiates unequivocally any form of discrimination or intolerance," the company said.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2022

“The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela repudiates this grave violation of human rights against a Venezuelan citizen, invested as a diplomat and representative of our country before the world,” the statement said.

From Washington Times Oct. 16, 2021

Enrique Tarrio, chairman of the administrative chapter of the Proud Boys, maintained that the group repudiates hate and racism and pointed out it has ordered white supremacists to leave its events in the past.

From New York Times Dec. 23, 2018

He repudiates the idea of an abstract self apart from desire.

From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas

Similarly, the price of Russian bonds went up, not down, for months after the new Communist government repudiated Russia’s debt in 1918, virtually wiping it out.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 19, 2026

SCOTUS, of course, repudiated “separate but equal” in Brown v.

From Slate Jun. 18, 2025

Asked about his claim – repudiated by Israel - that thousands of lorries were waiting on the border to enter Gaza, Mr Fletcher repeated that he especially needed to be "careful and really precise".

From BBC May 30, 2025

In 2017, his conviction was reversed after experts repudiated some of their testimony.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 2, 2024

The first two sections of this book were devoted to two different ways that researchers have recently repudiated this perspective.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

So one of the appealing takeaways from the biodoc “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley” is a repudiating of the typical narrative of inescapable fate, instead pursuing the richness of a gifted artist’s ups and downs.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 8, 2025

In Stanley, Jackson broke decisively with this strategy, repudiating the judicial philosophy in question as a “narrow-minded” and “incessantly malleable” tool that lets biased judges project their own agenda onto the law.

From Slate Jun. 23, 2025

The researchers now wanted to know whether these individuals would justify their decision retrospectively by repudiating climate change.

From Science Daily Feb. 2, 2024

And Roberts, in particular, has made a point of repudiating the Korematsu decision that approved American detention camps.

From Salon Nov. 15, 2023

In other words, if he did not answer Burr’s challenge, he would be repudiating his well-known convictions, and in so doing, he would lose the respect of those political colleagues on whom his reputation depended.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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