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repudiate

[ri-pyoo-dee-ayt] / 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

He argues that the city could run them—simply fold the MTA and let New York State repudiate the debt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 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

“Happy Days,” in a way, was the ’70s using the ’50s to repudiate the ’60s, or at least the divisive aftermath of them that fueled the one-liners in Archie Bunker’s living room.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 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

Mediaset Espana, which owns the news channel, issued a statement expressing its support for Ms Balado after the "absolutely intolerable situation" she suffered, and that it "categorically repudiates any form of harassment or aggression."

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2023

“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

Because norms are summaries of our common sense, norm violation is the essence of terrorism — terrifying because it repudiates the most taken-for-granted social certainties.

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2021

In a statement, Fabiani said the affidavit repudiates “all allegations” against O’Reilly.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2017

No wonder then that He repudiates any such goodness as the ruler had in view.

From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick

It speaks to the central paradox of our national origins: A revolution that repudiated allegiance to the British Constitution was nevertheless vitally inspired by that very constitutional inheritance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

His approach to international relations also contrasts starkly with neighbouring regimes, who have cultivated close security ties with Russia and repudiated their previous close partnerships with France.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025

In 2017, Brady’s then-wife, Gisele Bündchen, told CBS’ Charlie Rose that Brady had suffered a concussion in 2016, a trauma that had not been disclosed to the NFL, which repudiated Bündchen’s claims.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2025

Companies that struck partnerships with xAI, including Oracle and Polymarket, do not appear to have repudiated Grok’s Nazism, much less reconsidered their deals.

From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2025

And now you have repudiated the character of Lopsang with your “tattle tale” accounts of him.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

The Vietnam War was raging, there were protests in the streets and their own kids were repudiating many of their values.

From Salon ● May 6, 2026

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

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

From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2024

Georgia, establishing tribes’ right to self-governance and repudiating state claims to jurisdiction over “Indian Country.”

From Slate ● Jun. 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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