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retraction
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A retraction is a public statement made about an earlier statement that withdraws, cancels, refutes, or reverses the original statement or ceases and desists from publishing the original statement. The retraction may be initiated by the editors of a journal, ...
WordNet
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n. a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion [syn: abjuration , recantation ] the act of pulling or holding or drawing a part back; "the retraction of the landing gear"; "retraction of the foreskin"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An act or instance of retracting. 2 A statement printed or broadcast in a public forum which effects the withdrawal of an earlier assertion, and which concedes that the earlier assertion was in error. 3 (context mathematics English) A continuous function ...
Usage examples of retraction.
Caucasian, young male, severe shortness of breath, supraclavicular retractions, touch cyanotic.
It produces a thickening and hardening of the membrane lining the heart, and generally causes a retraction, adhesion, and degeneration of some of the valves of the heart, thus bringing on valvular disease.
As I naturally speculated on the object of these visits, and as I always associated something ludicrous with the visitor, it fell out that in laughing about Mr. Guppy I told my guardian of his old proposal and his subsequent retraction.
Winters renewed his demands for retraction precisely such as he had before named, except that he would allow me to state who did write the article if I did not myself, and this time shaking his fist in my face with more cursings and epithets.
Final inertial guidance corrections, final target processing, opening of the missile silo's twin steel muzzle shutters, retraction of all service ports, arms, and umbilicals, and preparation of the twin one thousand decaliter chemical reagent vessels for the turbo-powered cold-launch mixing process.
Then Wally took a seat beside a table sporting a Boston fern in a gold pot and explained his retraction.
And when we announced our intention of seeking a retraction of those unjust charges, someone broke in to the restaurant at three o'clock on a Thursday morning and vandalized the place, doing over fifty thousand dollars worth of damage.
Sides, don't want to end up scrapped by the landspouts," observed the pilot as he began the rotor retraction sequence.
In addition, you will send immediately - by registered post - a personally signed copy of that retraction and statement of regret to each of the 650 or so Members of Parliament.
And I happen to know that the secretary general's decision to hold hearings rather than a full war-crimes tribunal—even with all the retractions and reschedulings that entailed—was influenced by a personal call from the office of the PanChinese premier.
Supraclavicular retractions, respiratory rate is almost forty and he's cyanotic.
Curiously, they had been brought to Warren's office by a member of the Bloods gang, who stayed in the room to hear the witnesses' retractions - something Warren neglected to mention on the tape.
When a fourth witness who had refused to retract his statement was murdered, the first three renounced their retractions, saying the Bloods gang member who had escorted them to Warren's office had told them, "Lie or die.
No truth in this allegation… shocking… libellous… retractions and regrets are in the pipeline.
We’ve had to print seven retractions in the last four months—that’s a new record, by the way.