Definition of "repudiation" []

• The act of repudiating or the state of being repudiated. (noun)
• The refusal, especially by public authorities, to acknowledge a contract or debt. (noun)

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• "Is anyone reading the entrails of the rollout whether repudiation is a stake in the ground on 1.20.09 or is there accountability for past lawlessness?"
• "This repudiation is expressed with equal severity in the trilogy of novels on which Upward worked after he dropped from view, before the Second World War."
• "This repudiation is for political reasons only ..... everyone can see this coming."