How to Use renege in a Sentence

renege

verb
Definition of renegenext
Synonyms for renegenext
  • They had promised to pay her tuition but later reneged.
  • Weiss didn't renege on the deal as Biden's lawyers claim.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 15 Aug. 2023
  • So Morris reneged on his commitment to the Spurs and signed with the Knicks.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2019
  • To the contrary, the entire court agreed that Congress has the power to renege on treaties.
    — WSJ, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The anger isn’t just about failing to add a player who reneged on a promise.
    — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Kent paid up, but Manson reneged on his end of the deal until Kent threatened him.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2023
  • Or possibly Ferrari will simply renege on the whole idea in a year or two.
    — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Putting aside the fact that insurers retroactively renege on agreements to pay in the form of claim denials all the time, Clement had a point.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Twitter sued the billionaire in July over his attempt to renege on the deal.
    — Sarah E. Needleman, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022
  • In that case, the firm also took measures designed to build a foundation to renege on the deal as Musk is alleged to have done.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 July 2022
  • Sotomayor said Congress was not free to renege on a past promise to pay.
    — oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2020
  • The problem was Morris reneged on the deal, and the fallout continued Thursday.
    — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The community, which was cut in two by the bridge construction in the 1960s, had been promised a park but state officials reneged on that pledge.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Kroc seems to agree, only to renege on the royalty agreement on paper.
    — Yec, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • But in the House, conservatives are pushing Johnson to renege on the budget deal.
    — Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
  • This doesn’t imply that the U.S. is about to follow in the steps of countries such as Argentina and, most recently, Ghana, that have been forced to renege on their bonds.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The next month, talks collapsed amid U.S. charges that Beijing had reneged on a tentative bargain.
    — David J. Lynch, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Anthony Davis warned that if the owners renege on their commitments, then the players will just sit out again.
    — Tania Ganguli Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2020
  • By then, the Catholic Monarchs had also reneged on their vow of religious freedom.
    — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Much to his surprise (and likely horror), Pheu Thai did just that over the summer, reneging on commitments the party had made ahead of elections in the spring.
    — Tamara Loos, Foreign Affairs, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Some investors have begun to look into protection in case the United States does renege on its debts.
    — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Most notable was a pledge to give freedmen 40 acres, which the federal government reneged on.
    — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
  • Time and again, employers and business associates reneged on promises to pay him for his work.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Aug. 2023
  • But the government reneged on its agreement after gold was discovered on the land years later and displaced the the Great Sioux Nation once again.
    — Miles J. Herszenhorn, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
  • Protesters accuse the Communist Party of reneging on the deal and encroaching on the city.
    — Time Staff, Time, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Qatar reneged on long-term promises to let beer with alcohol be sold to fans at stadiums just days before the opening game.
    — Courtney Bonnell and Graham Dunbar, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Inception serves action with a slice of drama, and does it without reneging on either genre.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 20 July 2023
  • Congress might renege on its promise to fully cover shortfalls out of the Treasury.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 3 Apr. 2020
  • And to have smaller ones, like Fantasia Holdings Group, renege on debt payments.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Parents accused the agency of a breach of contract and reneging on an earlier promise to offer the 6 percent rate.
    — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 10 July 2023

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