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- Dictionarydisavow/ˌdɪsəˈvaʊ/
verb
- 1. deny any responsibility or support for: "the union leaders resisted pressure to disavow picket-line violence"
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4 days ago · The meaning of CONTRADICT ONESELF is to say or do something that is opposite or very different in meaning to something else that one said or did earlier. How to use contradict oneself in a sentence.
4 days ago · Her book, Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power (Northwestern UP, 2022), which shows how white people disavow racism across national boundaries to maintain power, and how anti-Black and colonial logics can be reproduced even in some decolonial literatures, won the 2023 Association for Ethnic Studies Outstanding Book Award.
1 hour ago · Speaking with Kaitlan Collins, she said, “I love my brother, but this is an outrage, and I completely disavow and disassociate myself from him on this issue.”
5 days ago · It is violently anti-democratic, and often, anti-Semitic. In its more traditional forms, it is old-school white supremacist. For those ‘modernisers’ on the extreme right who might disavow biological racism, there is still the belief that different ethnic groups should be kept separate (the radical right is more assimilationist).
1 day ago · Later, I also came to disavow the Church’s attempts at wooing us children with so much entertainment, especially entertainment that was squarely second-rate compared with what could be found in the secular world. By the time I entered university, I’d stopped attending church altogether.
1 day ago · The Cambodian genocide[ a] was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian citizens [ b] by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea, Pol Pot.
5 days ago · Executive action to disavow those interpretations may thus face pushback from individuals personally invested in the soundness of these theories. A proclamation avoids these potential pitfalls as it is public and is without prejudice to any prior executive branch interpretations of the war authorization.
