How to Use repudiation in a Sentence

repudiation

noun
  • New Year's resolutions typically include the repudiation of chocolate and other indulgences and the promise to resume working out at the gym.
  • How much more of a repudiation to that statement could this scene be?
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 May 2021
  • Her comment stopped short of a full-fledged repudiation of her own vote.
    — Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • This isn’t a reflection on age so much as a repudiation of it.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Each side has murdered a child of the other, and there’s no amount of repudiation that could fix it.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 30 June 2024
  • The end of the mandate is not a repudiation of the vaccine for children.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2023
  • But some at the network saw Licht’s mandate for change as a repudiation of their past work.
    — David Bauder, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2023
  • The mere thought of hot dogs and nachos brings swift repudiation from Varon Brown.
    — Freep.com, 11 Apr. 2021
  • His is a playground repertoire, a rolling repudiation of the safe option.
    — New York Times, 10 June 2026
  • The new right is not an evolution of conservatism, but a repudiation of it.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • Biden’s election can be more than a repudiation of Trumpian misrule.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 21 Jan. 2021
  • There should be a loud public call for a complete repudiation of the Mercers.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 10 Oct. 2017
  • But some at the network saw the way that change was communicated as a repudiation of their past work.
    — David Bauder, ajc, 7 June 2023
  • Readers of these pages will recall many warning signs of self-repudiation from Yale.
    — Roger Kimball, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2020
  • In fact, the election was a repudiation of the main parties, both of which are tainted by corruption.
    — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Some have noted the film is a very expensive punchline, a repudiation of the very audiences who showed up for the first film.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The only way to affect change was to change my father’s repudiation of his son, and the counselors doubted that would happen.
    — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
  • His remarks amounted to a repudiation of Corker’s work as well as of Dodd’s.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • This led into Lananna's election, a clear repudiation of the way the board had been doing business.
    — OregonLive.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The song is a repudiation of the cowboy culture that Tod saw taking over Nashville.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
  • But the result in Canton has been the same as in Quincy — an utter repudiation of the tawdry good-old-boy crew.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The redesign of this process requires constant iteration and ideation, as well as a repudiation of the status quo.
    — Brennan Barnard, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • In a capsule wardrobe — a direct repudiation of the micro-trend cycles dictated by fast-fashion brands — each item earns its spot on the rack.
    — Helen Carefoot, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The court could opt for the direct repudiation of Roe --perhaps in a single decision or a series of rulings.
    — Mary Ziegler, CNN, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Kimok said in a statement — which went on to repeat his platform which is largely a repudiation of much of what Satz was known for during his tenure.
    — Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 4 June 2019
  • His recent vote in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case marked a step back from that legacy, though not a total repudiation of it.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 27 June 2018
  • That said, the result is not a clear repudiation of the CDU’s mainstream policies.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The cheering by the sailors is the most public repudiation of military practices to battle the virus since the pandemic began.
    — Helene Cooper, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
  • None of this is to say that the repudiation of the 2020 election was insignificant or didn’t happen.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
  • His philosophy appears in many ways to be a repudiation of the populist rhetoric that helped Trump win the White House.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 31 May 2017

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'repudiation.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: