Embarrassments for news agencies

Usage examples of retractions.

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.

So for days the meeting, the Gautalagathing, the Thing of those bound by the Law of the Gauts, had been abuzz with messengers, rumors, offers of support and retractions, deals and promises.