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Recent Examples of retraction
Its retraction shows that scientific conclusions aren’t decided by majority rule in the public square
In 2021 a multidisciplinary team of researchers claimed that a Tunguska-sized airburst, larger than any such airburst in human history, destroyed a Bronze Age city near the Dead Sea.
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Mark Boslough, Scientific American, 25 June 2025
The governor’s lawyers sent Fox News a letter demanding a retraction and an on-air apology from Watters; if the network complies, the governor would drop the suit, per the letter.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 27 June 2025
Newsom’s team has offered to withdraw the lawsuit if Fox issues a public retraction and on-air apology.
—Bethany Wales, Sacbee.com, 27 June 2025
Chin tucks, scapular retractions, wall angels, and resisted rows to retrain postural muscles 3 to 4 times weekly.
—Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 18 June 2025
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Mark Boslough, Scientific American, 25 June 2025
The governor’s lawyers sent Fox News a letter demanding a retraction and an on-air apology from Watters; if the network complies, the governor would drop the suit, per the letter.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 27 June 2025
Newsom’s team has offered to withdraw the lawsuit if Fox issues a public retraction and on-air apology.
—Bethany Wales, Sacbee.com, 27 June 2025
Chin tucks, scapular retractions, wall angels, and resisted rows to retrain postural muscles 3 to 4 times weekly.
—Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retraction
Noun
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This is largely due to the renunciation of complete sovereignty and the sharing of resources that the EU has encouraged for almost 60 years now.—
Frank-Walter Steinmeier,
Foreign Affairs,
13 June 2016
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Dual citizenship policies vary among countries, with some countries mandating renunciation of existing citizenship.—
Jean Francois Harvey,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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The denial cited documentation that the nickname was used to refer to New York decades before Batman was created.—
Scott Soshnick,
Sportico.com,
24 July 2025
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Judge Robin Rosenberg, in her denial of that petition, said that an unrelated ruling in 2020 by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court does not have the power to unseal grand jury records in instances not covered by the criminal procedure rule.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
23 July 2025
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The modern cinema isn’t a repudiation of stories but a point of view on them—neither a rejection of them nor an assumption of them but an effort to discover them.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
20 May 2025
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Gelsinger’s departure late last year was widely seen as a repudiation by the company of his complex turnaround plan, which included trying to rebuild Intel’s manufacturing base.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Retraction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retraction. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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