J. Courtney Sullivan

For my seventh birthday, my parents gave me a plain, unfinished wooden dollhouse. It had six empty rooms, two floors, a staircase, and a door that swung out onto a little front stoop. The windows opened, and the roof retracted on one side, revealing an attic.

American Novelist

Gemma Collins

I believe there are lizards living amongst us. Do these humans who appear to be humans and look like us and act like us, go into the tunnels where their human faces, their human bodies - do they retract back into being lizards when they go into the tunnels?

English Celebrity

Mary Hart

I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.

American Entertainer

Jerry Saltz

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

American Critic

Antara Mali

I'm a private person. I am not too much of a media person also. I talk only when I want to, otherwise I retract quietly.

Indian Actress

Michael Palin

People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.

British Comedian

Joseph Joubert

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

French Writer

Ze Frank

The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.

American Comedian

Napoleon Bonaparte

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

French Statesman

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Spanish Poet

Used when something physically moves back or re-enters its previous position.

Physical Retraction

Often relates to devices or parts designed to retract for safety or convenience.

Safety Mechanism

Refers to small movements, not necessarily the whole object withdrawing.

Subtle Movement

Used when someone corrects a mistake by stating the opposite of what was said.

Correcting Errors

Often accompanies public apologies for incorrect or harmful statements.

Public Apology

Typically used in formal settings like media, law, or politics to disavow previous claims.

Formal Statements

Can describe the process of becoming less openly emotional or expressive.

Emotional Withdrawal

Indicates making something less noticeable or prominent, often in a subtle way.

Subdued Expression

 When the leg comes back in towards the body, that stored momentum gets transferred back to the dancer's body, propelling her around as she rises back onto pointe. As the ballerina extends and retracts her leg with each turn, momentum travels back and forth between leg and body, keeping her in motion.

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 A pufferfish may occasionally look more like a lethal balloon, but if it needs to swim rapidly, it’ll retract its spines. Handfish look like they have legs, but really these limb-like structures are fins, modified to help them amble across the sea floor. For fish, motion underpins survival,

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 revealed the superb running skills of both animals the gazelles sharp pointed hooves helped it change direction in a heartbeat the shooter can only keep up by using its tail like a rudder it's also helped by having paws that don't retract the

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 blurted out in the heat of the moment and later retracted. He stood by it in the face of repeated calls for clarification or withdrawal. He really meant it. More to the point, he knew it posed no threat to his election -- quite the contrary.

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 had not been vaccinated because their parents were afraid of something allegedly even autism. But wait -- wasn't the paper that sparked the controversy about autism and vaccines debunked, retracted, and branded a deliberate fraud

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 when some cone snails go hunting they like to burrow into the sand and wait when a meal happens by the cone snail fires its harpoon the poisons quickly paralyze the fish once its prey is helpless the cone snail retracts it

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 when a meal happens by the cone snail fires its harpoon the poisons quickly paralyze the fish once its prey is helpless the cone snail retracts it through its proboscis until it engulfs the fish swallowing it whole

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 And the federal government had to retract their statement. Now, justice for the people for Oaxaca is still far off, but their stories, their truths, can no longer be denied. So we started

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 beautiful but at the same times it's it's a sad feeling because again this this glacier and all our glaciers in the world most of them retract very very

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 retracted novels and we're still feminists thank God for that well by the way God is still a man so sorry about that that's not that hasn't changed

Retract

To pull something back or in.

To take back a statement or belief previously expressed, especially formally or publicly.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

To make less visible or more discreet.

Physical Retraction

Safety Mechanism

Subtle Movement

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