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Recent Examples of retraction
The lawsuit does not specify the amount Santana and Smith are seeking in damages, but the filing requests compensatory damages, punitive damages, attorney fees, a public retraction, and a correction.
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Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2026
Views of the original tweet and the retraction reached almost 600,000 as of Saturday night.
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Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2026
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.
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Jeremy Hsu,
ArsTechnica,
4 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for retraction
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2026
Views of the original tweet and the retraction reached almost 600,000 as of Saturday night.
—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2026
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.
—
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
See All Example Sentences for retraction
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.
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Part of what fascinated me about their presentation was not only their refusal to kowtow to male desire, which for decades had a stranglehold on rock aesthetics, but a concomitant disavowal of commercialism.
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Pelicot is troubled by her children’s immediate disavowal of their father, of their entire childhood.
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Rules have changed over decades, so some claims succeed while others face hurdles like formal renunciation.
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Carney is a moralist, a filmmaker of fidelity—and of renunciation, depicting the romantic near-misses and what-ifs that his characters leave behind.
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One reason Pharis has been so vocal online is to fight back against the shame and denial that drive so many to withhold their HIV status from others.
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Between 2016 and 2023, claim denials increased from 9% to 12%.
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After an often shaky start to his tenure leading the USMNT, the performance against Paraguay was a complete repudiation of his critics and validation of his tactics and managerial style.
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His is a playground repertoire, a rolling repudiation of the safe option.
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The reconsideration comes just five days after the proposal failed in a tie vote.
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That wider reconsideration of refuges was implied by Brian Nesvik, the director of the Fish & Wildlife Service in statements to Outdoor Life in January.
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“Retraction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retraction. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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