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"print a retraction" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used when a mistake or false information has been published in a news article, and the publication wants to correct it. Here is an example: After receiving backlash from readers for falsely reporting on the location of a local event, the newspaper was forced to print a retraction in their next issue.
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He said he'd be willing to print a retraction.
Would I print a retraction of his 2001 study, "so I don't have to worry about it anymore"?
"Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction".
"He said he had never met us before, why were we attacking him?" Mr. Coppola said the meeting, in which Dr. Larson demanded the newspaper print a retraction, left him shaken and concerned.
Rather than print a retraction, the newspaper printed a clarification that included Dr. Larson's assertion that students were asked, in e-mail messages, for their opinions on altering the activity period schedule.
After being forced to print a retraction, the magazine filed a legal complaint of its own.
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Shotup of this was that Luce, embarrassed, printed a retraction; now often removes too-vivid phrasing from writers' copy.
Yet neither of them printed a retraction.
To this day not one reporter has ever printed a retraction.
Blogger Mathew Ingram reminds us of one of the coolest things from the Apollo mission: After it happened, the New York Times printed a retraction from a editorial it ran in 1920, saying space flight was impossible.
So, although the newspaper printed a small retraction a week later, I needed to ensure that my name was publicly – and in as widespread a way as possible – cleared, so I decided to pursue a libel claim against them.
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