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adjective

as in revoked

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verb

past tense of retract
as in withdrew
to solemnly or formally reject or go back on (as something formerly adhered to) the newspaper was forced to retract the story, which turned out to be based on fabricated reporting

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Recent Examples of retracted
Adjective
Notably, 90% of 190 sick individuals in the current case reported eating iceberg lettuce, a robust epidemiological link independent of the retracted test. — Lisa Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026 On April 22, 2026, Springer Nature posted a retracted article notice almost a year after initial publication. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 4 May 2026 The reading assignments prepared for the judges include a Substack post by a notable climate contrarian accusing the authors of the retracted climate chapter in the federal court’s reference manual of including material by Burger and hiding his authorship. — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 2 May 2026 In a demo at CES 2026, Bluetooth SIG marketing VP Dave Hollander set an unlock distance on a phone across the room from a Bauer smart lock—then walked within 2 feet of the lock, leading its deadbolt to whir into the retracted position. — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 19 Mar. 2026 The three presenters on the hepatitis B vaccine were not vaccine scientists, and two had authored a retracted paper about autism. — Dr. Debra Houry, Time, 5 Dec. 2025 Here’s how the situation unfolded and why the since-retracted comment was so controversial. — Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025 Nonetheless, the global ACV market is now valued at more than US$1 billion (2023-2024) and continues to grow – something that one retracted study is unlikely to impact. — New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2025 In 1998, former physician Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues published a since-retracted paper claiming that the MMR vaccine could cause autism in children. — Dominik Stecuła, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
That's because the sink and invisible dual-burner induction cooktop are concealed below a sliding top that works just like a bar or table when retracted. — New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2026 The study was found to be fraudulent; eventually, it was retracted entirely. — Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 So far, no cinema chains have seemingly gone along with the boycott (NewsCord falsely reported one was going to ban the film, then retracted the claim). — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2026 But as post-WWII agriculture shifted toward chemical fertilizers, herbicides, and heavy machinery, the need for kudzu decreased rapidly, and the federal government retracted its support for the crop. — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Aug. 2026 Drivers should remain stopped until the arm is retracted and the bus begins moving again. — Andrew Adeolu, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026 Three others in the group — 14, 15 and 16 at the time — implicated Noling in the slayings of the Hartigs during a burglary but later retracted their statements, saying that police pressured them to name Noling as the shooter. — ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026 Only when the United States retracted those measures and agreed to further talks, in June, did China agree to resume exports of rare earths and magnets. — Gloria Xiong, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026 The myth that they’re somehow linked stems from a single report from England involving just a dozen children that was later found to be fraudulent and unethical and was forced to be retracted. — Andrew D. Racine, STAT, 14 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for retracted
  1. withheld
  2. withdrew
  3. suppressed
  4. renounced
  5. recanted
  6. denied
  7. concealed
  8. contradicted
Adjective
  • The withheld funding supports election monitoring, independent media and other pro-democracy programs abroad.
    — Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
Definition of withheld
Verb
  • The airline withdrew an application for a third flyover planned for this coming weekend, the aviation authority said.
    — Pete Muntean, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The union later withdrew that measure, but only after the council struck a deal to require new hotel projects to go through a more extensive approval process at City Hall.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of withdrew
Adjective
  • General Manager Ken Holland hinted at potentially being done after trading center Phillip Danault for a draft pick in December and acquiring Panarin at a suppressed price in February, though he has been known to under-promise often and, sometimes, over-deliver.
    — Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Supervising sound editor Alastair Sirkett told IndieWire that Peter Claffey’s big, former-rugby-player frame really helps that moment sing with suppressed panic.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 18 Feb. 2026
Definition of suppressed
Verb
  • Yermolaiev has lived in the glitzy city state on the Mediterranean coast for several years, having left Ukraine and renounced his Ukrainian citizenship in 2019 to become a citizen of Cyprus.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Their virality comes at a time when the very generation that inspired them has largely renounced the label.
    — Margaux MacColl, Vanity Fair, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of renounced
Adjective
  • The two who confessed – and later recanted – were convicted of capital murder and remained in prison until DNA evidence proving their innocence led to their release in 2009, prosecutors said.
    — Jean Casarez, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
Definition of recanted
Verb
  • The Attorney General’s Office could not be reached for comment on why the grant was denied.
    — Jake Ramsey, Oklahoma Watch, 30 Aug. 2026
  • If that application is denied, deportation could be a death sentence.
    — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of denied
Adjective
  • Retractable or concealed handles now appear on cars from American, European, Korean and Chinese manufacturers.
    — Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
  • In another instance, investigators identified a gray button on a test-taker's shirt as a concealed camera.
    — Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 25 June 2026
Definition of concealed
Verb
  • But court filings, video evidence and investigators later contradicted key parts of that account, according to CBS News.
    — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Castro initially claimed under oath that Sosa-Celis attacked him, but surveillance footage contradicted his claim.
    — Ryan Lucas, NPR, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of contradicted

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“Retracted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retracted. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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