demit

Definition of demitnext

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for demit
Verb
  • In other Western countries, many feel resigned to a lifetime of renting with little hope of following their parents and grandparents’ footsteps up the property ladder.
    Chris Lau, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
  • Zilis, who by that point had children with Musk, resigned from the OpenAI board.
    Ashley Capoot,Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 18 May 2026
Verb
  • In Manhattan, a judge ruled recently that a defendant who used a general-purpose AI chatbot to help prepare his case had waived attorney-client privilege.
    Alexandra Smyth, Fortune, 16 May 2026
  • The set-up fee may be waived for lower-income applicants.
    Brian Sloan, CNBC, 15 May 2026
Verb
  • The medical providers Cole and Mosley accused denied wrongdoing.
    Jo Yurcaba, NBC news, 16 May 2026
  • Weinstein’s attorneys have denied that encounter ever took place, and have argued that the trial judge improperly withheld evidence that would have bolstered his alibi.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 15 May 2026
Verb
  • Israeli leaders later disavowed the incident and said that he would be reprimanded, and assisted local residents in replacing the statue.
    Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
  • Abraham Lincoln tried in vain to disavow the Confederacy’s interpretation of the Declaration as rendering the Constitution meaningless.
    Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Verb
  • Even the closest readers of the post could trouble themselves wondering if Damsky’s words implied something more than a call for members of that group to voluntarily abjure their own identity.
    Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The foreigners, almost without exception, refuse to formally abjure Christianity, though that is one way to gain liberty.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That candidate, Bushra Amiwala, disowned the support and condemned the ad, widely seen as an attempt to siphon voters from another young progressive, Kat Abughazaleh.
    David Daley, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The same fiber that the broader industry is scrambling to disown is also winding deeper, tighter—and, indeed, faster—into the Chinese economy.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 12 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Beijing has never renounced the use of force to unify Taiwan with the Chinese mainland.
    Jan Camenzind Broomby, NPR, 14 May 2026
  • Everyone in our state should renounce and denounce these defamatory attacks.
    Ashley Paul, CBS News, 12 May 2026
Verb
  • Another is that whoever’s chosen should disclaim under oath loyalty to anyone or anything other than the Constitution.
    Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Another is that whoever’s chosen should disclaim under oath loyalty to anyone or anything other than the Constitution.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026
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“Demit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demit. Accessed 21 May. 2026.

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