apostatized

past tense of apostatize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for apostatized
Verb
  • Advertisement Lee also renounced any concept of gender roles, longing for full social equality regardless of gender or race.
    Barry Levitt, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Beijing views Taiwan as its own territory and has never renounced the use of force to bring Taipei under its control.
    Jan Camenzind Broomby, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Thursday’s vote is what happens when pragmatism prevails, when adults make difficult decisions and when the borrow-and-spend ethos of this mayor and his team is repudiated.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Before 2014, the building was abandoned and MIA wanted to tear it down.
    Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Drummond is blamed for the deaths of the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a home's front yard in rural west Tennessee.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The club rejected her for lack of record.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Combine uneven play with 11 penalties and that’s a cocktail even the Florida student section nauseously rejected.
    Noah White, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Unlike formal speeches or parliamentary votes, a podcast answer can be easily downplayed or disowned.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The federal government has functionally abdicated its role in keeping Americans safe from dangerous illness.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Why had Congress abdicated its power to set tariffs?
    Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Founded in 2008, Groupon, which once spurned a $6 billion takeover offer from Google on its way to a $25 billion valuation, has fallen in recent years to a fraction of its previous worth amid sharp revenue declines.
    Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • For example, according to The Athletic, Vancouver Whitecaps signing Thomas Müller spurned FC Cincinnati because of concerns he’d be turned into a marketing machine with the city’s German-American community, and instead opted for a club where the main focus would be on the field.
    Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • But some scientists, while endorsing the need to drastically reduce planet-heating pollution, warned against cutting off research into polar geoengineering.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This was in Brighton, in the south of England, in a valley, cut off from the outside world.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Apostatized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apostatized. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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