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If the ships are falsely flagged or flagged to a country that disowns them, the tankers can be subject to U.S. jurisdiction while in international waters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

You can detect the traces of the predecessor in the inheritor, even if the inheritor disowns any knowledge of the inheritance.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 16, 2019

Nanjiani’s acceptance into his girlfriend’s family is equally fraught, even if no one disowns anyone.

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2017

The new perpetual secretary of the Academie disowns the Druon changes.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2016

The present writer did not make the world, or its inhabitants, and he disowns all responsibility for its miserable defects.

From Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England by Foote, G. W. (George William)