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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
recant .
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Examples
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The complainant it’s starting to look like “rape victim” is no longer a properly descriptive term recants part of her testimony
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The complainant it’s starting to look like “rape victim” is no longer a properly descriptive term recants part of her testimony, and the DNA analysts apparently conspired with the District Attorney to withhold exclupatory evidence.
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At first, police thought they may have had something, but then the guy, Mullins, recants -- in other words, takes back a confession.
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The auditor is pretty much a done deal unless Ferguson recants which is unlikely.
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-- it's the rather odd epistemological view that if one "recants" a view then one no longer actually holds it.
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Mr. Miller said his office can prosecute domestic-violence cases even when the complaining witness recants the allegations, but he said he could not discuss the reasons why prosecutors opted not to move forward in this case.
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For more: - Om gets the Jedi Mind Trick treatment from Robertson, then recants.
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Toe-sucker, Dick Morris tells a bold-faced, fabricated lie on TV, and recants it two days later — but not before drugster Lintball has run with it and told his brainwashed, trigger-happy audience the lie.
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CNN: Hofstra student recants gang rape allegations
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However, he later changes his mind and recants his testimony.
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