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Recent Examples of denial Murry has seen this question ignite defensiveness, gaslighting, and denial of any wrongdoing. Angela Haupt, Time, 3 Sep. 2025 Leonard would also like to see a new independent ethics commission housed within the Office of the Auditor General that could handle complaints alleging public employees engaged in impermissible political activities on the job, appeals of FOIA denials, disputes over NDAs and more. Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025 The hard-to-target weapons are considered a key element of the People's Liberation Army's anti-access/area denial strategy, designed to keep enemy forces at bay in a wartime scenario. Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025 But despite the president’s denial, the video remains authentic, according to multiple officials. Dave Smith, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for denial
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Noun
  • This isn’t to say that this refusal is a good thing; many haven’t rejected these aspects of the American Dream by choice.
    Alice Lassman, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
  • According to de Veer, the refusal of his request to include his extended version of the theme that included the popular motif later in the show was one of the main sources of contention during the making of Season 3.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And then, 11 days later, the movie will appear in theaters nationwide, something that seemed implausible over the years as the rejections kept piling up.
    Tim Casey, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Then an Alabama woman whose pig kidney lasted 130 days before rejection prompted its removal, sending her back to dialysis, helped researchers shift to not-as-sick patients.
    Lauran Neergaard, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Denial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/denial. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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