as in refusal
the act or practice of giving up or rejecting something once enjoyed or desired
her renouncement of chocolate had a lot to do with the fact that it was causing her skin to break out
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Noun
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Pence declined to endorse Trump in 2024 following Trump's refusal to concede the 2020 election.—
Hannah Parry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025 -
Southerners took Northern refusal to extend them insurance as proof of anti-Southern discrimination, helping to bolster a sectional identity.—
Justin Hawkins / Made by History,
TIME,
31 Jan. 2025
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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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The rise in New Yorkers fighting health insurance denials underscored growing anger and frustration nationally with the industry.—
David Robinson,
USA TODAY,
7 Feb. 2025
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The latest: California has already prohibited the use of AI for coverage denials, and Bloomberg Law reported that lawmakers in Georgia, New York and Pennsylvania are vowing to bring up the issue this year.—
Arika Herron,
Axios,
5 Feb. 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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“Renouncement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/renouncement. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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