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Recent Examples of retraction
The lawsuit, filed in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Florida, seeks unspecified damages and a public retraction of statements Sun made on social media about World Liberty Financial.
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Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 4 May 2026
The retraction notice received minimal attention until it was shared on Bluesky and LinkedIn by Williamson.
—Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 4 May 2026
Alongside its request for a retraction, the SPLC filed a motion asking for grand jury transcripts to make sure false statements weren't used to secure the indictment.
—ABC News, 28 Apr. 2026
Both crewmembers then focused on the aircraft flight path, and the retraction of the landing gear was inadvertently omitted.
—Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
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Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 4 May 2026
The retraction notice received minimal attention until it was shared on Bluesky and LinkedIn by Williamson.
—Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 4 May 2026
Alongside its request for a retraction, the SPLC filed a motion asking for grand jury transcripts to make sure false statements weren't used to secure the indictment.
—ABC News, 28 Apr. 2026
Both crewmembers then focused on the aircraft flight path, and the retraction of the landing gear was inadvertently omitted.
—Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retraction
Noun
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And Bishop’s formal recantation helped to fast-track the overturning of the convictions.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Pelicot is troubled by her children’s immediate disavowal of their father, of their entire childhood.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
20 Feb. 2026
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But with Rourke’s strong disavowal, Hines also wanted to assure fans that there was nothing shady about the GoFundMe.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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This was the start of my genuine renunciation.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
4 May 2026
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The department said the new $450 fee remains well below the government’s actual cost of processing renunciation requests.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
14 Mar. 2026
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The filing includes email correspondence between the PTPA and the two federations, detailing the denials.—
Ava Wallace,
New York Times,
18 May 2026
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The denial of Ukrainian political and cultural independence is grounded in the ideas of Russkiy mir.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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The results were widely interpreted as a repudiation of Labour's performance to date by British voters.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
12 May 2026
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Until then, smuggling weed had been a grand adventure, an escape from a society that had just thrown Prager’s generation into a meat grinder in Vietnam, a repudiation of the crooked politicians and backward preachers and greedy capitalists who were running the world.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2026
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The court also sent that case back for reconsideration on Monday.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 May 2026
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Last month, a Colorado appeals court upheld Peters’s conviction but ordered reconsideration of her nearly nine-year sentence.—
Shane Harris,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2026
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“Retraction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retraction. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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