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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
The ruling marked a rare and sweeping judicial repudiation of the administration’s unprecedented use of military personnel to support deportation operations amid immigration protests in the south state.
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Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 13 June 2025
Paul Valéry said that taste is formed of a thousand distastes, and Anderson’s aesthetic is a furious affirmation fuelled by those many implicit repudiations.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 29 May 2025
Vance’s argument—that judges are not simply treading on the President’s constitutional authority but actively frustrating the will of the electorate—is, at bottom, a repudiation of the constitutional structure.
—Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 25 May 2025
But in a swing that appeared to be a repudiation of Simion’s skeptical approach to the EU, which Romania joined in 2007, Dan gained almost 900,000 more votes to solidly defeat his opponent in the final round.
—Stephen McGrath, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025
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Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 13 June 2025
Paul Valéry said that taste is formed of a thousand distastes, and Anderson’s aesthetic is a furious affirmation fuelled by those many implicit repudiations.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 29 May 2025
Vance’s argument—that judges are not simply treading on the President’s constitutional authority but actively frustrating the will of the electorate—is, at bottom, a repudiation of the constitutional structure.
—Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 25 May 2025
But in a swing that appeared to be a repudiation of Simion’s skeptical approach to the EU, which Romania joined in 2007, Dan gained almost 900,000 more votes to solidly defeat his opponent in the final round.
—Stephen McGrath, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for repudiation
Noun
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The denial cited documentation that the nickname was used to refer to New York decades before Batman was created.—
Scott Soshnick,
Sportico.com,
24 July 2025
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Judge Robin Rosenberg, in her denial of that petition, said that an unrelated ruling in 2020 by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court does not have the power to unseal grand jury records in instances not covered by the criminal procedure rule.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
23 July 2025
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But Committee Chair James Comer criticized O'Conner over his refusal to answer questions saying there had been a conspiracy to cover up Biden's cognitive decline.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 July 2025
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Also on Wednesday, the Trump administration sued the state over its refusal to ban transgender girls from competing in girls’ athletic programs.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
10 July 2025
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In Cassidy’s time, the pre-academy era, there was next to no assistance for players dealing with rejection or setbacks.—
Simon Hughes,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
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But this rejection of empathy has paved the way for dehumanizing rhetoric toward entire groups.—
Brian Recker,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 July 2025
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This is largely due to the renunciation of complete sovereignty and the sharing of resources that the EU has encouraged for almost 60 years now.—
Frank-Walter Steinmeier,
Foreign Affairs,
13 June 2016
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Dual citizenship policies vary among countries, with some countries mandating renunciation of existing citizenship.—
Jean Francois Harvey,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 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 29 Jul. 2025.
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