repudiated

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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

Without the old-claim bar, federal prisoners are no longer automatically foreclosed from re-presenting claims that were previously rejected under legal assumptions the Supreme Court has since repudiated.

From Slate • Jan. 10, 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

Some of those decisions aligned with some unitary executive claims, but others directly repudiated them.

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2025

The politicians who supplied funds for the war from exile had publicly repudiated the drastic aims of Colonel Aureliano Buendía, but even that withdrawal of authorization did not seem to bother him.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez