How to Use retraction in a Sentence

retraction

noun
  • His charges were false, and he was forced to make a retraction.
  • Mead, for his part, refused to agree to the retraction.
    Michael Bérubé, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The abrupt retraction means the land transfer will no longer take place March 11.
    NBC News, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The media will be happy to tell you all about the retractions, but they ...
    Erin Hawley, National Review, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The researchers have called for a retraction of the study, published last year in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
    Jeré Longman, New York Times, 12 July 2018
  • Nine of the 10 authors of the manganese sulfide paper agreed to the retraction.
    Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The fix simply involved swapping in a much stronger link to the retraction system, and all was well.
    Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The road to this retraction shows both what is good and what is bad about the way the modern scientific method works.
    The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
  • The changes are unlikely to silence criticism of the journal in the wake of the retraction.
    Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 18 Sep. 2020
  • And the careers of most researchers whose names are on the retractions that do happen haven’t suffered a scratch.
    Ivan Oransky, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2023
  • West asked for a retraction from producers at the time.
    Mark Osborne, ABC News, 12 June 2024
  • As is often the case when fraud is detected, the authors did not agree with the retraction.
    Steven Salzberg, Forbes, 25 July 2022
  • The awning's size and retraction mechanism are what drives cost.
    Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2022
  • Keep in Mind It can get caught on the retraction when it is fully extended.
    Molly Blanco, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 June 2023
  • The store’s closure ahead of the pandemic was part of a wave of retail retraction across Alaska.
    Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The recoil was smooth and easy to control using the retraction button.
    Molly Blanco, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 June 2023
  • But despite the retraction of the paper that made that claim, Tang said some people still worry about the vaccine.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The following evening, the News issued what amounted to a front-page retraction.
    Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Despite the retraction, investors are still acting as if there’s a kernel of truth to the rumors.
    Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2022
  • So what are voters to think if, if the, there’s no retraction of the allegation as part of the settlement, what does that mean?
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 Sep. 2023
  • It can get caught on the retraction when it is fully extended.
    Molly Blanco, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Nov. 2022
  • When reeling in, the kite is depowered, to minimize the pulling force and retraction time.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 14 May 2021
  • But the sad thing is that this photo goes out, thousand -- tens of thousands of times, and then the retraction and the deletion doesn't get seen, so the damage is already done.
    Fox News, 30 May 2018
  • West's team is asking that the show issue its retraction within two weeks.
    Andrea Towers, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Those steps weren’t enough, as the retraction discloses.
    Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The first involves the retraction of a paper that appeared to show that mask use was ineffective.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 June 2020
  • But then that study was also found to be unreliable, and The Lancet issued a retraction.
    Jeva Lange, TheWeek, 10 June 2020
  • Allowing for this, the number of retractions per journal has not gone up (chart 2).
    The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • But with the journal Psychopharmacology’s retraction of three papers related to this work, Lykos has a difficult road ahead of it.
    Benjamin Y. Fong, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Coppola subsequently demanded a correction and retraction from Variety, which declined to do so, according to the complaint.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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