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Recent Examples of retraction
In addition to the retraction, Wakefield's medical license was revoked due to falsified information.
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Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Incorporating a sewing machine motor and colored lights, the sculpture appeared to viewers as a translucent dome across which abstract images flickered, and whose retraction into a black plastic cabinet visitors could trigger by stepping on a nearby pressure-sensitive pad.
—News Desk, Artforum, 17 Oct. 2024
The utility of this recording does not come just from what the pilots might say; the sound of a stall warning indicator or landing gear retraction or engine noise could each allow investigators to infer things about the flight's last moments.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2025
Coppola subsequently demanded a correction and retraction from the outlet, which declined to do so.
—Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2025
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Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Incorporating a sewing machine motor and colored lights, the sculpture appeared to viewers as a translucent dome across which abstract images flickered, and whose retraction into a black plastic cabinet visitors could trigger by stepping on a nearby pressure-sensitive pad.
—News Desk, Artforum, 17 Oct. 2024
The utility of this recording does not come just from what the pilots might say; the sound of a stall warning indicator or landing gear retraction or engine noise could each allow investigators to infer things about the flight's last moments.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2025
Coppola subsequently demanded a correction and retraction from the outlet, which declined to do so.
—Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retraction
Noun
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The key to making neutrality work for Ukraine is shaping it in a way that ensures that renunciation of NATO membership does not come at the expense of the country’s self-defense or its prospects for an economic and political future in the West.—
A. Wess Mitchell,
Foreign Affairs,
17 Mar. 2022
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Saxon through acquisition; Piper through renunciation.—
January LaVoy Krish Seenivasan Ted Blaisdell,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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But the station’s website posted a story on Levine’s All-Star Game report that had no byline and no mention of the Cubs’ denial.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
25 May 2025
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Olson said that the school’s denial did not comply with the law.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
23 May 2025
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The repudiation, mirroring Hollywood’s abandonment of Norma, only deepened her remaining performances in London.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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Joel tries to understand its meaning but that matters less to Ellie than his initial repudiation of her sexuality.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
18 May 2025
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“Retraction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retraction. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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