retractation 的 2 个定义
- to draw back or in: to retract fangs.
- to draw back within itself or oneself, fold up, or the like, or to be capable of doing this: The blade retracts.
retractation 近义词
retraction
更多retractation例句
- Keatts, Lewis and Sara Libby had to scrap their first podcast recording Thursday when NBC 7 retracted its story.
- In a statement Friday, Bry disavowed any responsibility for spreading misinformation by promoting the story while it was disputed but not yet retracted.
- Once the plastic sticks, one for each sample, are retracted and sealed in a bag marked “biohazard,” the residents are hustled out of the facility.
- Sri Lankan police retracted the mistake, but not before Majeed received death threats.
- In fairness to the candidates, though, the paper has not written or announced that it withdrew its support or retracted its view that, for example, Elliott should not be fired.
- Although Mefferd later apologized for the method of her accusations, she did not retract the substance of the claims.
- I cannot and I will not retract anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience.
- But when reporters asked him why he felt the need to retract the comment, he said, “So you all could stop asking me about it, OK?”
- His manager, agent, and close friends begged him to retract his statement.
- Editor Mark Whitaker stood by the article, but had to retract the detail about the Quran.
- I do not retract my word, Malcolm; but I am bound, by an early promise to my father, never to enter the doors of a gaming-house.
- Then something that he had heard came back to him, and brought a sudden frown to his face, but it was too late to retract.
- Some time afterward, turning an expressive look, he said again, "I retract that expression."
- This tragedy is bad, and I do not retract a single word of what I have said about it; but the actress is admirable.
- By such means it was not difficult to extort admissions which the prisoner was likely to retract at a subsequent time.