disownment

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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • With all the denials, Goldberg released part of the text chain to prove what was in it was, in fact, war plans, including weather conditions, timing, targets, weapons and sequence of strikes.
    S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 27 Mar. 2025
  • This denial could be motivated by the fear of admitting the presence of beings more advanced and therefore more powerful than us.
    David Chauvet, JSTOR Daily, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The utility of this recording does not come just from what the pilots might say; the sound of a stall warning indicator or landing gear retraction or engine noise could each allow investigators to infer things about the flight's last moments.
    Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Coppola subsequently demanded a correction and retraction from the outlet, which declined to do so.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The concern about the bank’s future is heightened as the second Trump administration doubles down on its repudiation of climate projects and promotes an accelerated expansion of U.S. oil and gas projects.
    Max Bearak, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
  • America’s repudiation of its traditional foreign policy is being driven by both Trump’s particular obsessions and wider geopolitical changes.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
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“Disownment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disownment. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.

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