Sentence examples for was recanted from inspiring English sources

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was recanted

verb

To withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly.

  • Convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant.

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However, in later proceedings, crucial witness testimony was recanted.

"The letter was recanted by Ms. Fisher," said Ken Glueck, a senior vice president at Oracle.

The case against them rested on witness testimony, some of which was recanted.

The case consumed the lives of the nine men, even after the rape accusation was recanted by one of the women and the testimony of other witnesses fell apart in a series of retrials and appeals.

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When Ms. Lederer asked, he said he had not been asked to change his statement and was recanting of his own free will.

In 1948, Beveridge published Voluntary Action, a book which was a very different kind of manifesto from his report six years earlier, a passionate defence of voluntary provision of social welfare, and quite obviously a palinode: Beveridge was recanting his own role in the creation of a vast centralised bureaucracy.

Within hours of announcing a 1 GB data cap on the service, TMobile was recanting like McCain after an over-the-shoulder whisper from Lieberman.

While George Wallace was recanting his views, people up here were accepting the status quo.

Last Tuesday, Ford's work email account was hacked and messages were sent out claiming she was recanting her description of the sexual assault.

"I'm not walking it back," Trump said, fending off Kelly's suggestion that he was recanting his admission that it was a mistake.

In effect, the monarch was recanting on a promise to honor IOUs at a certain rate and so got to write off his or her debts in accordance with the size of the cry-down.

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