(v. t.) To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall.
(v. i.) To revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said; to retract; as, convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prime minister made an unscheduled statement on Tuesday morning from behind a lectern outside 10 Downing Street, in which she recanted her repeated promise not to go to the polls before 2020.
(2) The hordes poured in to defend her, the story went global and by lunchtime on Friday the leader of the council was having to recant and apologise, live on BBC Radio 4.
(3) My article for the Forest Journal, robustly supporting the chancellor’s earlier policy, is already with the printer … Having been persuaded of the correctness of the course that the chancellor is now following, I merely needed an opportunity to recant.” Philip Hammond’s letter Ann-Marie Trevelyan, a backbench MP who had raised concerns about the NICs rise, told the Guardian she welcomed the chancellor’s change of heart: “My leaflets had ‘no tax rises’ on them.
(4) One explicitly said he sought no recantation of past remarks nor a change of position on Israel, just reassurance that "you won't put us through another four years of this".
(5) The experience with zomepirac (Zomax) and the unexpected incidence of severe anaphylactic reactions is recanted as an unfortunate illustrated example that has served to upgrade the adverse reaction reporting process.
(6) Though Berger never specifically recanted, he did later admit that Ways of Seeing was too rushed and crude, and that he had not allowed for the genius factor.
(7) Referring to the two hadith in which Muhammad reportedly condemns apostasy as a capital offence, Maher Hathout , author of In Pursuit of Justice: The Jurisprudence of Human Rights in Islam writes: "both of them contradict the Qur'an and other instances in which the Prophet did not compel anyone to embrace Islam, nor punish them if they recanted."
(8) Anders also said that on 2 May Sterling met Stiviano at the Four Seasons hotel in Beverly Hills – just before she recorded an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters – and asked her to recant statements about the tape's authenticity and confess to doctoring it.
(9) Mal Brough has categorically denied asking Peter Slipper’s former staffer to procure copies of the Speaker’s diary for him, recanting an admission he apparently made during a 60 Minutes interview last year.
(10) Instead, Flint professed her loyalty, only to recant 18 hours later, while Hutton insisted his departure was personal and that he wanted Brown to stay in post.
(11) As a former prosecutor herself, Gold said it is tough to bring charges when a witness recants, even though it is possible to bring a case to trial when there is no witness prepared to testify.
(12) He later recanted the position on reducing Asian immigration.
(13) There were no breast-beating recantations but, according to Dawidoff, "he still [had] reservations about how far afield he took country music from the relatively unadorned prewar downhome sound."
(14) In an interview on the 7.30 program, the independent senator Andrew Wilkie said Garrett’s recanting of the story “beggars belief”.
(15) Instead of defending her position, Penny caved, recanted, and commented mournfully that "having your privilege checked" was painful.
(16) • Five doctors were coerced by the Sri Lankan government to recant on casualty figures they gave to journalists in the last months of island's brutal civil war.
(17) William Sweeney, the FBI’s assistant director in New York, said on Monday that the FBI had got a report of a domestic incident involving Rahami some time ago, but the allegations had been recanted, and “there’s nothing to indicate that currently he was on our radar”.
(18) The change in the tide was obvious when arch-Blairite Peter Mandelson went on television to recant.
(19) It would recant the illiberal legacy of Labour home secretaries, of Charles Clarke , Jack Straw and Jacqui Smith , and reassert individual rights against the surveillance state.
(20) Nick Herbert, the Tory MP who chaired his party’s remain campaign, wrote in the Guardian that anyone warning against hard Brexit was branded as “heretics who must recant and swear adherence to the new faith”.
Recast
Definition:
(v. t.) To throw again.
(v. t.) To mold anew; to cast anew; to throw into a new form or shape; to reconstruct; as, to recast cannon; to recast an argument or a play.
(v. t.) To compute, or cast up, a second time.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Independence will give us the chance to recast our social security system for the future," she said.
(2) This summer, if all goes to plan, the metaphor will be vividly recast: the Globe's stage will itself become a world.
(3) It is this sense of being helpless, of being forgotten, of having the social settlement recast in ways that takes away while offering nothing in return, and, above all, of not being heard that so inflames not just students but huge swaths of the British.
(4) Recasting is often a semi-colon now, not a full-stop.
(5) Perhaps the contrast should now be recast as that between the constitution’s embarrassable and unembarrassable parts.
(6) This much is all reassuring, as was his recognition that the whole mould of politics has been recast by the Liberal-Conservative deal, even though he did not spell out what he thought this meant for Labour .
(7) Malcolm Turnbull, who ousted Abbott as prime minister in September and recast the national security debate by emphasising mutual respect , has responded by saying that it was important not to tag all Muslims with responsibility for the crimes of a few.
(8) Tokyo, like London, offers a city already established on the world stage the opportunity to recast itself in the eyes of the world and its own public.
(9) Downing Street itself billed the reshuffle, the only major recasting of government planned ahead of the 2015 election, as an attempt to promote ministers capable of delivering on policies already announced.
(10) On Monday Clegg brushed off a question about the timing of the review, which is expected to report around the time of Labour's special conference, when Ed Miliband will aim to recast Labour's relationship with the unions.
(11) That could recast the broader political outlook, potentially to the benefit of liberals alarmed by what they see as Bo's leftist tendencies.
(12) With the conductivity a different constant in different regions, the variational principle is recast in terms of the charge density on the surfaces of discontinuity.
(13) The next morning, as the Lib Dems tried to come to terms with a media that had, overnight, recast their leader from insipid also-ran to hero, poll results that Clegg could not have dreamed of 24 hours earlier were still pouring out.
(14) Obama's address comes amid his steady loss of ground on efforts to recast America's approach to fighting terrorism.
(15) Although Top Gear has been around for almost 40 years, it was completely reinvented by Clarkson, recast in the distinct mould of his formidable personality.
(16) More fundamental, however, is recasting the way in which we do business.
(17) Nonetheless, a recasting of relations is compelling for a secretary of state eager to reclaim territory after the foreign policy crises in the Middle East and Afghanistan were hived off to envoys.
(18) On Gillard’s account the entire battle is recast.
(19) Universal credit , the government's recasting of the welfare benefits system, has had to be reorganised so fundamentally that the government watchdog responsible for grading its implementation has judged that it is now an entirely new project.
(20) But a recast could see Labor campaign more aggressively against the perceived weaknesses of Tony Abbott, contradicting its promise to run a positive campaign.