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Recent Examples of retraction
The letter notes the post was later retracted, though not for a full day, and that the retraction itself repeated the original accusation.
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Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 20 Mar. 2026
Only two of the six authors responded to and agreed with the journal's retraction.
—Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 16 Mar. 2026
Still, critics argue the retraction underscores the need for careful reexamination as the agency approaches a 2026 deadline to review glyphosate’s safety.
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 2 Mar. 2026
Steele has denied that accusation and demanded a retraction.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
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Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 20 Mar. 2026
Only two of the six authors responded to and agreed with the journal's retraction.
—Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 16 Mar. 2026
Still, critics argue the retraction underscores the need for careful reexamination as the agency approaches a 2026 deadline to review glyphosate’s safety.
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 2 Mar. 2026
Steele has denied that accusation and demanded a retraction.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retraction
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And Bishop’s formal recantation helped to fast-track the overturning of the convictions.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Jan. 2026
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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
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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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British psychiatrist Humphry Osmond, who took part in a peyote ceremony with a First Nations group the Red Pheasant Band in Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1956, intuited the necessity of community, empathy, and ego renunciation during the psychedelic process.—
Erica Rex,
STAT,
19 Feb. 2026
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Both aircraft are critical in modern conflicts as dense radar networks, long-range surface-to-air missiles, electronic warfare (EW), and anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) capabilities often define success or failure.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Apr. 2026
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His odds of winning an appeal of his bond denial seemed low.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
26 Apr. 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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Indeed, Trump’s foreign policy has often been less a repudiation of neoconservatism than a mutation of it.—
Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2026
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Amid widespread reconsideration of prominent people accused of wrongdoing, some wondered whether Jackson might disappear from playlists.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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The appellate judges sent what's been called the James class action back to the trial court for reconsideration.—
Alex Crippen,
CNBC,
11 Apr. 2026
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“Retraction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retraction. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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