How to Use disavow in a Sentence

disavow

verb
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  • She now seems to be trying to disavow her earlier statements.
  • He disavowed the actions of his subordinates.
  • By the time the case reached the Supreme Court, though, the government had disavowed the theory.
    — Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 11 May 2023
  • Ethan and his buddies have been disavowed quite a few times.
    — Time, 12 July 2023
  • Targets of the pranksters rushed to disavow the bogus statements.
    — Ryan Mac, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Campbell on Tuesday asked Janey to disavow the first negative ad of the race.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The book says Trump's staff begged and pleaded with him to publicly disavow the violence at the Capitol.
    — Marshall Cohen, CNN, 28 June 2021
  • Any Republican who wants my vote in the future is going to have to publicly disavow the lies and the liars.
    — Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
  • Harris and Hirono, Sasse said, had crossed a line by asking Buescher to disavow the Knights.
    — Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2020
  • As news of the Byrd’s death spread, members of the KKK came to town to disavow connection to the killing with speeches laced with racist vitriol.
    — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The right must disavow its extremists or be destroyed by them.
    — Garry Kasparov, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Most of all, Bobby’s politics conflict with JFK’s and his fringe views have caused his cousins to disavow him.
    — Barbara Lippert, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Others expressly disavowed the new blue badge, which seemed to them anything but cool.
    — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Trump’s campaign has had to disavow Nazi symbology in the past.
    — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The most ridiculous criticism of Wallace from the right focused on him asking Trump to disavow the far-right gangs that support him.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Sabra was forced to decide whether to disavow his religion or be punished by getting the answers wrong on the quiz, the lawsuit said.
    — Lorraine Longhi, The Arizona Republic, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Sarah Sanders refused to disavow Trump’s claim that journalists were the enemies of the people.
    — Maggie Haberman, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2020
  • Even after the backlash threatened his business, Unanue did not disavow his words.
    — Emily Heil, Houston Chronicle, 10 July 2020
  • There has already been some sparring, with Campbell on Tuesday asking Janey to disavow the first negative ad of the race.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Both Mack and Clyne have since publicly disavowed Raniere’s teachings; Mack was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021, and was released earlier this year.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Scope 3 emissions are both harder to account for and easier to disavow.
    — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 4 May 2023
  • Once the act was committed, the leaders of the groups could publicly disavow the violence — and avoid prosecution.
    — New York Times, 26 Jan. 2021
  • There’s no other way to put it: the President of the United States refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night.
    — Ryan Teague Beckwith, Bloomberg.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Adams appeared to send a subtle message to disavow any notions that there was tension between him and members of the Raiders front office.
    — Chantz Martin, Fox News, 17 May 2023
  • The Queen’s death brought new attention to Commonwealth nations’ desire to disavow the British monarchy.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 3 Nov. 2022
  • On Wednesday morning, the president took to social media to publicly disavow the deal.
    — Fortune, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Trump was specifically asked to disavow the Proud Boys, a pro-Trump men's rights group that has been accused of committing acts of violence.
    — Spencer Neale, Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Greene made an apologetic floor speech at the time attempting to disavow some prior comments.
    — Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2022
  • For his part, Trump refuses to disavow Putin or anything about their Helsinki summit.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 16 June 2021
  • The suits caused Newsmax to disavow its own coverage on air and later led to one of its anchors fleeing the studio when a guest started making false claims about fraud.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2022

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