retraction

retract | American Dictionary

retract
verb[ I/T ]
us/rɪˈtrækt/
to say publicly that you will not do something you had said you would do, or to admit that something that you had said was true is false:
[ T ]She had to retract statements in published articles.
To retract is also to pull something back or in:
[ T ]The pilot retracted the landing gear soon after takeoff.

retract | Business English

retract
verb[ T ]
uk /rɪˈtrækt/us
to take back an offer or statement, etc. or admit that a statement was false:
retract a statement/comment/decisionA political uproar followed, and he quickly retracted his comments.
retract an offer/a bidThe EPA then retracted the offer with little explanation.
retract an endorsement/accusation/criticism

Examples of retract

retract
They can use locutions for claiming a proposition and for challenging, conceding and retracting a claimed proposition.
Other coronals may be retracted, but confirmation of this awaits further acoustic work.
The jaw was retracted and the skin of the upper palate was cut at the midline.
At retracting edges, large actin bundles were characteristically associated with prominent focal adhesions that slid during retraction (not shown).
The catheter was rilled with diluted contrast medium, and gently retracted towards the septum.
A word that is retracted in isolation surfaces as advanced when preceding an advanced word in a particular phrasal and phonological context.
The user wants to control the design process by retracting the design decision made by the tool.
Anything derived from information included in such a user request is also retracted.
Also, the main stress tends to be retracted in the nominalization.
When the tape was pulled out, a small toy was placed in the ring and pulled along by retracting the tape.
In the nominative singular form tone retracts from the yer desinence, and is realised on the base.
As soon as the operator feels the reflected force, he promptly retracts the master handle at 4.35 sec.
The operator retracts the master handle at 3.20 sec.
Likewise, when a semantic tuple is removed from the space, the statements that it contains are retracted from the knowledge base.
Instances are asserted and retracted into/from the knowledge base as temporal events dictate.
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