How to Use repudiation in a Sentence

repudiation

noun

• New Year's resolutions typically include the repudiation of chocolate and other indulgences and the promise to resume working out at the gym.
• The end of the mandate is not a repudiation of the vaccine for children.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2023
• The mere thought of hot dogs and nachos brings swift repudiation from Varon Brown.
  — Freep.com, 11 Apr. 2021
• How much more of a repudiation to that statement could this scene be?
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 May 2021
• But some at the network saw Licht’s mandate for change as a repudiation of their past work.
  — David Bauder, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2023
• But a repudiation of Trump may not be the best way for the GOP to transition to new leadership.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 3 Mar. 2021
• It’s stunning, and a repudiation of the notion that aero now forces such cars to look generic.
  — Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2022
• Her comment stopped short of a full-fledged repudiation of her own vote.
  — Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• But the Seahawks’ repudiation of the NFL’s passing boom hasn’t caused them to flounder as the rest of the league mounts an aerial assault.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2018
• That said, the result is not a clear repudiation of the CDU’s mainstream policies.
  — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2021
• The court’s ruling amounts to a repudiation of the agreement, both the opposition and the United States have claimed.
  — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
• There should be a loud public call for a complete repudiation of the Mercers.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 10 Oct. 2017
• His philosophy appears in many ways to be a repudiation of the populist rhetoric that helped Trump win the White House.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 31 May 2017
• In fact, the election was a repudiation of the main parties, both of which are tainted by corruption.
  — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
• None of this is to say that the repudiation of the 2020 election was insignificant or didn’t happen.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• The project would in many ways be a repudiation of prior efforts to adapt D&D for the screen — but that doesn’t mean the brand has completely shed its history.
  — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• But some at the network saw the way that change was communicated as a repudiation of their past work.
  — David Bauder, ajc, 7 June 2023
• While those opposed to the move see the bill’s passage as a repudiation of Hideout’s tactics, the town is still moving forward with a last-ditch effort to get the land.
  — Taylor Stevens, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2020
• His remarks amounted to a repudiation of Corker’s work as well as of Dodd’s.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• The only way to affect change was to change my father’s repudiation of his son, and the counselors doubted that would happen.
  — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• One member of that caucus, state Rep. Leslie Herod, said that these endorsements do not amount to a repudiation of Williams.
  — Alex Burness, The Denver Post, 19 Nov. 2019
• His recent vote in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case marked a step back from that legacy, though not a total repudiation of it.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 27 June 2018
• The court could opt for the direct repudiation of Roe --perhaps in a single decision or a series of rulings.
  — Mary Ziegler, CNN, 1 Nov. 2021
• Truthfully, even a Vance loss would most likely not have been a repudiation of Trump.
  — Byrick Klein, ABC News, 3 May 2022
• The new right is not an evolution of conservatism, but a repudiation of it.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• This led into Lananna's election, a clear repudiation of the way the board had been doing business.
  — OregonLive.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• States with measures to defund schools that teach the 1619 Project are more explicit in their repudiation.
  — Anthony Conwright, The New Republic, 29 July 2021
• James sees the work as both a repudiation of the state surveillance of Black people and Barnette’s attempt to connect with her father across time.
  — NBC News, 24 June 2021
• Ashbery’s work, for all its seeming repudiation of the psychological self, could even be seen as an expression of it.
  — Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
• The two-round elections began Sunday with a massive repudiation of Macron’s centrist bloc and a stunning surge in support for the nationalist, anti-immigrant hard right.
  — Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 1 July 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024