repudiate

Example Sentences

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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

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

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