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A statement withdrawing or correcting something previously asserted.

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retraction

The newsletter printed a retraction after discovering that its earlier claim was inaccurate.
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When readers asked what had gone wrong, the editor's first reply was an evasion: it discussed the bulletin's volunteer effort without answering the question about the copied sentence. She later issued a retraction that clearly withdrew the inaccurate account and supplied the correct proposal.
From Correcting the Public Account.
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