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
• Questions linger about the way CNN handled the publication of the story and the retraction.
  — Sydney Ember and Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2017
• 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
• While curtains are more traditional and come in a variety of colors, prints, and materials, shades are one piece of material that moves up and down the window via a cord or retraction.
  — Laura Lu, Ms, Parents, 10 Sep. 2024
• The First Opinion authors reached out to journal publishers, journal editors, and managers of websites citing Lynn’s work, but their calls for retractions were routinely rebuffed.
  — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 20 June 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024