The president and the dean of Johns Hopkins Medicine said that they "repudiate" language in a newsletter from the school’s Office of Diversity that used a "definition of privilege that runs counter to ...

The article explains that minors can generally disaffirm contracts, including those with arbitration clauses. In Melendez v. Fieldston, a court ruled that minors could void their enrollment contracts ...

The most revealing thing about politicians' linguistic gaffes and malaprops is the weird reactions they evoke. Take Sarah Palin's refudiate. She first used the word in a TV interview, calling on ...

Here's a cheat sheet about some words we may use these last three weeks of the campaign. The first two often get confused: Rebut: "To contradict ... or oppose, esp. in a formal manner by argument, ...

STATE DEPARTMENT — The United States said Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi should repudiate remarks he made in 2010 calling on Egyptians to "nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred” for ...

At the first debate, Joe Biden took ownership of today's Democrats with an uncharacteristically clear proclamation: "I am the Democratic Party." With that, Biden assumed responsibility for repudiating ...