retract
Example Sentences
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Mullin also retracted remarks he made at the time in which he called one of the two Americans killed in Minneapolis a "deranged individual."
From Barron's
The FJC is the education arm of the federal judiciary, and we told you recently that it retracted the climate chapter of the Fourth Edition of its Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence.
Meanwhile, after an online backlash CNN has retracted a comment it published about the alleged attackers.
When the public hears about scientific fraud, the focus often falls on isolated cases involving falsified data, plagiarism or retracted studies.
From Science Daily
After a truth-telling lecture tour failed to attract much of an audience, Maggie retracted her confession: “I gave expression to utterances that had no foundation in fact.”
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
