repudiate

Example Sentences

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He didn’t repudiate his warnings when they failed to pan out, yet didn’t lose his popularity or prestige.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 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

It took the Court 74 years to repudiate that ruling.

From Salon • Nov. 15, 2023

In seeming to repudiate capitalism’s imperatives, its success can seem surprising, even mystifying.

From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2023

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