repudiate
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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
The ability to deny facts or repudiate them, even in the face of clear evidence to the contrary, is a key component of war propaganda, used to make sure the facts remain unclear.
From Salon • Oct. 19, 2023
In seeming to repudiate capitalism’s imperatives, its success can seem surprising, even mystifying.
From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2023
Burr, true to form, refused to make any promises to deliver New York to the secessionists, but he also would not repudiate the conspiracy.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing repudiate
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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