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recant +‎ -ation

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recantation (countable and uncountable, plural recantations)

  1. The act of recanting or something recanted.
    • 2023 September 30, Patrick Wintour, “‘No turning back’: how the Ukraine war has profoundly changed the EU”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      Macron’s full recantation came in his speech on 31 May this year in Bratislava, arguably the most important delivered by a European leader since the war broke out.

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