repudiating

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The Vietnam War was raging, there were protests in the streets and their own kids were repudiating many of their values.

From Salon • May 6, 2026

So one of the appealing takeaways from the biodoc “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley” is a repudiating of the typical narrative of inescapable fate, instead pursuing the richness of a gifted artist’s ups and downs.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025

In Stanley, Jackson broke decisively with this strategy, repudiating the judicial philosophy in question as a “narrow-minded” and “incessantly malleable” tool that lets biased judges project their own agenda onto the law.

From Slate • Jun. 23, 2025

The researchers now wanted to know whether these individuals would justify their decision retrospectively by repudiating climate change.

From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2024

In other words, if he did not answer Burr’s challenge, he would be repudiating his well-known convictions, and in so doing, he would lose the respect of those political colleagues on whom his reputation depended.

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