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Similarly, the price of Russian bonds went up, not down, for months after the new Communist government repudiated Russia’s debt in 1918, virtually wiping it out.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

SCOTUS, of course, repudiated “separate but equal” in Brown v.

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2025

In 2017, his conviction was reversed after experts repudiated some of their testimony.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2024

But even he was eventually repudiated by his own party.

From Salon • Nov. 13, 2023

Winnie had been invited to open the annual conference of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, and at my instigation she repudiated these rumors in no uncertain terms.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela