repudiated

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The French Revolution would deepen his own radicalism, and Richmond, in his more conservative later years, repudiated him.

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

SCOTUS, of course, repudiated “separate but equal” in Brown v.

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2025

In 2017, his conviction was reversed after experts repudiated some of their testimony.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2024

From the perspective south of the Potomac, of course, these were the institutions and symbols the American Revolution had supposedly repudiated forever.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis