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Recent Examples of disown Related Stories Will Forte Is Willing to Climb Mount Everest to Promote ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ After Looney Tunes Film Was Saved Khan plays Rehan Roy, a notorious jewel thief working successfully abroad after his father (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) disowned him for his career choice. Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 25 Apr. 2025 Spider-Man 3 (2007) A botch job of oppositional motivations practically disowned by its own director, the messiest Spider-Man movie is a near-constant tonal misfire, simultaneously more serious than its predecessors and more willfully goofy. Darren Franich, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2025 The film highlights the struggles of a dementia patient after his kids disown and abandon him in old age. Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025 After connecting with therapist Jodi Hildebrandt, who advocated for strict parental discipline, Ruby, now 42, disowned Shari and asked her husband and oldest son to move out. Sabienna Bowman, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for disown
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Verb
  • So with his conviction and prison stay, Larson was denied access.
    Savannah Leigh Richardson, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
  • Paxton, during the trial, denied having the affair.
    Ty Roush, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
Verb
  • Molina-Neave was arrested in San Antonio, Texas, in 2006 but refused extradition to Denver.
    Jessica Seaman, Denver Post, 7 July 2025
  • Glover refused, and Pierce told her to turn around as she was being arrested.
    Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 7 July 2025
Verb
  • New York Senator Julia Salazar, who was among the electeds observing hearings Thursday called for New Yorkers to reject what is happening inside lower Manhattan immigration courts.
    Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 5 July 2025
  • But her boss rejects her resignation, and offers her a new assignment: find Xavier, the mysterious kingpin whose power reaches all the way to the Oval Office.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 4 July 2025
Verb
  • The story included statements from Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel refuting the premise, but not Bongino.
    Eric Tucker, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2025
  • The memo also concluded that Epstein died by suicide, refuting other claims that there was foul play behind his 2019 death in prison.
    Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 10 July 2025

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