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Recent Examples of retraction
The structure is made from wood and features telescoping carbon-fiber tubes that allow for easy expansion and retraction.
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Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2024
The International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, which is owned by Elsevier and the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, issued a formal retraction.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
The drop was responsible, in part, for global sales retraction that led to a fall in profits last quarter.
—Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2024
Hong Kong’s art market has suffered a retraction amid a slowing Chinese economy, with auctions reporting higher unsold rates and lower sales figures than in recent years.
—Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 3 Dec. 2024
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Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2024
The International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, which is owned by Elsevier and the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, issued a formal retraction.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
The drop was responsible, in part, for global sales retraction that led to a fall in profits last quarter.
—Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2024
Hong Kong’s art market has suffered a retraction amid a slowing Chinese economy, with auctions reporting higher unsold rates and lower sales figures than in recent years.
—Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 3 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retraction
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So the practice of love turns on a renunciation of control.Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Dec. 2024
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Syria The large question hanging over our Syria policy is whether the rebel group chiefly responsible for toppling the Assad regime, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or Organization for the Liberation of the Levant, is sincere in its renunciation of terrorism and Taliban-style Islamism.Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 12 Dec. 2024
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But, as Hurston must have understood on some level, there was little chance that Hollywood would touch her book, because the key move in her revision of Biblical history was the denial of the divinity of Jesus.Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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What To Know About Chris Wright Chris Wright, CEO of Liberty Energy and Donald Trump's nominee for energy secretary, has faced criticism for his outspoken denial of the climate crisis and for Liberty Energy's involvement in a racial bias lawsuit, which was settled with federal authorities in 2024.John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
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Its members' firm repudiation of the unqualified and clownish Matt Gaetz for attorney general shows that its members can still stiffen their sinews and summon up the courage to curb President-elect Donald Trump's appetite for surrounding himself with sycophantic boobs.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
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It had been abandoned by its traditional allies – Russia, Iran, and Lebanon’s Hezbollah – as well as by Arab nations that in recent years had changed course from their repudiation of the regime’s brutal suppression of dissent and pursued normalization.Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Retraction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retraction. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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