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as in denial
a refusal to confirm the truth of a statement
voters seemed satisfied by the candidate's public repudiation of the beliefs of an organization to which he had briefly belonged as a youth
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as in refusal
the act or practice of giving up or rejecting something once enjoyed or desired
New Year's resolutions typically include the repudiation of chocolate and other indulgences and the promise to resume working out at the gym
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Recent Examples of repudiation
Trump’s latest move reverses one of the Biden administration’s first acts, itself a repudiation of Trump’s 2017 announcement that banned the service of transgender troops.
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Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
Pernicious racial politics and illiberal impulses of tribalism have poisoned American society for so long that a decisive repudiation from top down is required.
—Wenyuan Wu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025
Taken together, the three resignations were a striking repudiation of the Trump administration’s effort to force the dismissal of the charges against the mayor, who has argued that the prosecution was politically motivated.
—James Barron, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
This show is a repudiation of that fear, a way for Gulman to talk through how he’s tried to reclaim some confidence, to move past the childhood wound of being unsupported and underestimated.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2025
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Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
Pernicious racial politics and illiberal impulses of tribalism have poisoned American society for so long that a decisive repudiation from top down is required.
—Wenyuan Wu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025
Taken together, the three resignations were a striking repudiation of the Trump administration’s effort to force the dismissal of the charges against the mayor, who has argued that the prosecution was politically motivated.
—James Barron, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
This show is a repudiation of that fear, a way for Gulman to talk through how he’s tried to reclaim some confidence, to move past the childhood wound of being unsupported and underestimated.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for repudiation
Noun
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Planning staff recommended denial of the permit for the drive-thru, which would sit within 300 feet of another drive-thru to its north and the Bainbridge subdivision to its west on Lost Rapids Drive.—
Rose Evans,
Idaho Statesman,
19 Apr. 2025
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Often the oddity comes from the chilling drone of bureaucracy: the executor’s compassionate thicket of legal reasoning, an airline representative’s denial of Carrie’s quest for a bereavement discount, the dollars and cents of Dr. J’s cremation (for which Carrie is retroactively billed).—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2025
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But Han himself was impeached just two weeks later over his refusal to fill a vacant seat in one of the country’s top courts and was only reinstated to the role in late March.—
Mike Valerio,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2025
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With his occasionally brusque manner, his maniacal secrecy about team selection and his refusal to explain his tactical decisions, Luis Enrique put a few noses out of joint in the French media.—
Tom Williams,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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Their firm rejection of federal government conditions also emphasizes autonomy's critical role in organizational health.—
Dan Pontefract,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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The 6-foot-11 big man is logging averages of 19.2 points, 10.4 boards, 4.9 dimes, 1.1 swipes and 0.8 rejections across his 75 available contests.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Apr. 2025
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Erdoğan may need Kurdish support to run again Some analysts have said public suggestions by Erdoğan's political allies that Ocalan, the 75-year-old PKK leader, could be released in return for a renunciation of violence, form part of an effort to woo Kurdish voters.—
Willem Marx,
NPR,
1 Mar. 2025
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Enacted after the Civil War as a renunciation of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which held that Black people are not citizens of the U.S., the birthright citizenship clause has been relatively uncontested since 1868.—
Henry Gass,
The Christian Science Monitor,
30 Jan. 2025
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The feats, the ecstasies, the prostrations and abnegations.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2025
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The explicit and quasi-religious abnegation of the right to violent self-defense put the national committee at odds with one of its key allies during the Saturday march: Black Lives Matter.—
Samantha Eyler,
Foreign Affairs,
31 Jan. 2017
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“Repudiation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repudiation. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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