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to solemnly or formally reject or go back on (as something formerly adhered to)
the newspaper was forced to retract the story, which turned out to be based on fabricated reporting
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Recent Examples of retracted
Jeremy Hsu,
ArsTechnica,
4 May 2026
The reading assignments prepared for the judges include a Substack post by a notable climate contrarian accusing the authors of the retracted climate chapter in the federal court’s reference manual of including material by Burger and hiding his authorship.
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Abrahm Lustgarten,
ProPublica,
2 May 2026
In a demo at CES 2026, Bluetooth SIG marketing VP Dave Hollander set an unlock distance on a phone across the room from a Bauer smart lock—then walked within 2 feet of the lock, leading its deadbolt to whir into the retracted position.
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Rob Pegoraro,
PC Magazine,
19 Mar. 2026
The three presenters on the hepatitis B vaccine were not vaccine scientists, and two had authored a retracted paper about autism.
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Dr. Debra Houry,
Time,
5 Dec. 2025
Here’s how the situation unfolded and why the since-retracted comment was so controversial.
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Clare Duffy,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
Nonetheless, the global ACV market is now valued at more than US$1 billion (2023-2024) and continues to grow – something that one retracted study is unlikely to impact.
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New Atlas,
24 Sep. 2025
In 2021, Sala's work came under scrutiny for a retracted study that used flawed data.
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Elisabeth Brier,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
In 1998, former physician Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues published a since-retracted paper claiming that the MMR vaccine could cause autism in children.
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Dominik Stecuła,
The Conversation,
17 Sep. 2025
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
30 June 2026
The journal typically adds a large RETRACTED notice across digital papers that have been retracted, leaving them available for download.
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Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
28 June 2026
Britain’s national grid issued, then retracted, a call for more power as the buffer between supply and expected demand grew tight; electricity prices hit $740 per megawatt Wednesday evening, up from $100 in the morning.
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Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
26 June 2026
In April 2026, the New England Journal of Medicine retracted a paper after discovering that a clinical image had been manipulated with AI.
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Nan Li,
The Conversation,
22 June 2026
One of his Greenlandic colleagues offered his own thoughts, then similarly retracted, lest his assertions affect Greenland’s new position of leverage.
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Ben Taub,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
The farm retracted those statements five days later, but continued to dispute the cause of the outbreak and contest the agency’s findings.
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CNN Money,
14 June 2026
One of the few major studies that purported ChatGPT improved learning performance was retracted last month.
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Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
10 June 2026
The farm retracted those statements five days later, but continued to dispute the cause of the outbreak and contest the agency’s findings.
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Annie Waldman,
ProPublica,
9 June 2026
Adjective
On April 22, 2026, Springer Nature posted a retracted article notice almost a year after initial publication.
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Jeremy Hsu,
ArsTechnica,
4 May 2026
The reading assignments prepared for the judges include a Substack post by a notable climate contrarian accusing the authors of the retracted climate chapter in the federal court’s reference manual of including material by Burger and hiding his authorship.
—
Abrahm Lustgarten,
ProPublica,
2 May 2026
In a demo at CES 2026, Bluetooth SIG marketing VP Dave Hollander set an unlock distance on a phone across the room from a Bauer smart lock—then walked within 2 feet of the lock, leading its deadbolt to whir into the retracted position.
—
Rob Pegoraro,
PC Magazine,
19 Mar. 2026
The three presenters on the hepatitis B vaccine were not vaccine scientists, and two had authored a retracted paper about autism.
—
Dr. Debra Houry,
Time,
5 Dec. 2025
Here’s how the situation unfolded and why the since-retracted comment was so controversial.
—
Clare Duffy,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
Nonetheless, the global ACV market is now valued at more than US$1 billion (2023-2024) and continues to grow – something that one retracted study is unlikely to impact.
—
New Atlas,
24 Sep. 2025
In 2021, Sala's work came under scrutiny for a retracted study that used flawed data.
—
Elisabeth Brier,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
In 1998, former physician Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues published a since-retracted paper claiming that the MMR vaccine could cause autism in children.
—
Dominik Stecuła,
The Conversation,
17 Sep. 2025
Verb
As soon as the error was realized, the story was retracted and removed from NPR’s website and an on-air correction was broadcast.
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Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
30 June 2026
The journal typically adds a large RETRACTED notice across digital papers that have been retracted, leaving them available for download.
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Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
28 June 2026
Britain’s national grid issued, then retracted, a call for more power as the buffer between supply and expected demand grew tight; electricity prices hit $740 per megawatt Wednesday evening, up from $100 in the morning.
—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
26 June 2026
In April 2026, the New England Journal of Medicine retracted a paper after discovering that a clinical image had been manipulated with AI.
—
Nan Li,
The Conversation,
22 June 2026
One of his Greenlandic colleagues offered his own thoughts, then similarly retracted, lest his assertions affect Greenland’s new position of leverage.
—
Ben Taub,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
The farm retracted those statements five days later, but continued to dispute the cause of the outbreak and contest the agency’s findings.
—
CNN Money,
14 June 2026
One of the few major studies that purported ChatGPT improved learning performance was retracted last month.
—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
10 June 2026
The farm retracted those statements five days later, but continued to dispute the cause of the outbreak and contest the agency’s findings.
—
Annie Waldman,
ProPublica,
9 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for retracted
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The withheld funding supports election monitoring, independent media and other pro-democracy programs abroad.
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After starring in a slew of movies with each other, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen withdrew from the spotlight to focus on launching The Row, a luxury fashion brand, in 2005.
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Del Toro beat him at the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes last month before Seixas later withdrew with injury — and UAE domestiques have made it onto the podium before, such as Adam Yates in 2024.
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General Manager Ken Holland hinted at potentially being done after trading center Phillip Danault for a draft pick in December and acquiring Panarin at a suppressed price in February, though he has been known to under-promise often and, sometimes, over-deliver.
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Supervising sound editor Alastair Sirkett told IndieWire that Peter Claffey’s big, former-rugby-player frame really helps that moment sing with suppressed panic.
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The 58-year-old construction tycoon renounced his Ukrainian citizenship in 2017, Ukrainian media reported, and has been a citizen of Cyprus since 2019.
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What follows are dozens of examples of how those whose names are familiar (or aren’t) and legendary (or infamous) for their actions while representing the state have been embraced (or renounced) by the rest of the country and beyond.
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The two who confessed – and later recanted – were convicted of capital murder and remained in prison until DNA evidence proving their innocence led to their release in 2009, prosecutors said.
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Graf denied a defense request to force Robinson's partner to travel from Texas to testify in person.
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Historically, the Catholic Church had denied religious funerals inside its houses of worship as well as traditional burials for those who died in this way.
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In another instance, investigators identified a gray button on a test-taker's shirt as a concealed camera.
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Kentucky lawmakers will likely let our columnist Joe Gerth down again by overriding the veto of a bill that would allow 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds to carry concealed guns.
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These emergency decisions have thrown lower courts’ processes into turmoil and have sometimes directly contradicted longstanding legal precedent.
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Jorge Rodríguez, the president of the National Assembly, announced Monday that the official toll stood at 1,719 people killed and 5,000 injured, and warned the public against sharing information that contradicted authorities.
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