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He didn't disown them.
To repudiate someone is to disown them.
But he could conceivably apologize for them and disown them.
Parents whose sons go to prison often disown them.
When we're bored with those, we quietly disown them and quickly find something else.
I myself, on second thoughts and showings, could easily disown them in six months' time.
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I believe Elgar and Holst wisely disowned them.
"He used to be Yankees, but now he's disowned them".
Mr De Mulder's aunt and sister have spoken of their devastation when he disowned them on his Facebook page.
The Cowboys might paint themselves as America's Team, but Texas seems on the verge of disowning them as an embarrassment of overhyped underachievement.
He provided the critically influential voice in support of the current administration's tax cuts, for instance, but he now disowns them.
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