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Examples of retract
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You face failures and have to retract some of their ambitions, which is painful.
From the dailymail.co.uk
The LDP, according to Japan's Kyodo news agency, is likely to retract that goal.
From the washingtonpost.com
I can't miss the fact that I, in practice, retract my support for this estimate.
From the iftomm2003.com
On this flight, the astronauts are only trying to retract one side of the array.
From the newscientist.com
Politely ask the person who you feel has insulted you to retract what they said.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It is scarcely relevant here but why did the Lancet retract the Wakefield study?
From the healthland.time.com
They don't know what they are doing, and so advise parents to retract and clean.
From the healthland.time.com
News Limited quotes Nixon denying he pressured the girl to retract her statement.
From the canberratimes.com.au
When you power down, both retract quickly and are protected by built-in covers.
From the dallasnews.com
- Abjure: formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
- Shrink back: pull away from a source of disgust or fear
- Use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
- Draw in: pull inward or towards a center; "The pilot drew in the landing gear"; "The cat retracted his claws"
- (retracted) drawn back and in; "a cat with retracted claws"
- (retraction) a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion
- In topology, a retraction, as the name suggests, "retracts" an entire space into a subspace. A deformation retraction is a map which captures the idea of continuously shrinking a space into a subspace.
- In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a section is a right inverse of a morphism. Dually, a retraction is a left inverse. In other words, if and are morphisms whose composition is the identity morphism on Y, then g is a section of f, and f is a retraction of g.
- In mathematics, in the field of group theory, a subgroup of a group is termed a retract if there is an endomorphism of the group that maps surjectively to the subgroup and is identity on the subgroup. ...
