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as in refusals
an unwillingness to grant something asked for
our supervisor's denial of unpaid personal leave got mixed reactions from the staff
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as in rejections
a refusal to confirm the truth of a statement
the senator issued a flat denial of the accusation against her
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Recent Examples of denials
Her plaintive denials on screen are robbed of any credibility by an inescapable sense of overwhelming resentment.
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Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
Sometimes, when patients and doctors shame insurers online, denials get overturned.
—Lauren Sausser, Miami Herald, 5 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
For some viewers, the parallels between that story and current atrocities — and denials — could not be clearer.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
The Houthis' denials, however, highlight the information war accompanying the conflict, with each side seeking to shape perceptions of success and failure.
—Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Sometimes, when patients and doctors shame insurers online, denials get overturned.
—Lauren Sausser, NBC news, 23 Aug. 2025
And while insurers have been scrutinized for practices such as prior authorization and service denials, the main driver of health insurance premiums are hospital charges for both inpatient and outpatient services, Ho said.
—Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
Language models are flagging coding errors, demystifying payer rules, and reducing costly denials.
—Bill Frist, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
Sometimes, when patients and doctors shame insurers online, denials get overturned.
—Lauren Sausser, Miami Herald, 5 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
For some viewers, the parallels between that story and current atrocities — and denials — could not be clearer.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
The Houthis' denials, however, highlight the information war accompanying the conflict, with each side seeking to shape perceptions of success and failure.
—Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Sometimes, when patients and doctors shame insurers online, denials get overturned.
—Lauren Sausser, NBC news, 23 Aug. 2025
And while insurers have been scrutinized for practices such as prior authorization and service denials, the main driver of health insurance premiums are hospital charges for both inpatient and outpatient services, Ho said.
—Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
Language models are flagging coding errors, demystifying payer rules, and reducing costly denials.
—Bill Frist, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for denials
Noun
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Legal experts say a clear trend is forming due to the number of refusals to indict in such a short time.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Sep. 2025
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Associated Press What To Know The court emphasized that the law underpinning the travel ban does not authorize such visa refusals and declined to defer to the State Department's historical practice, citing Supreme Court precedent limiting agency discretion.—
Dan Gooding
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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
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All the rejections that came before are, miraculously, rendered meaningless.—
Thomas Swick
September 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This project became both an ethnographic and photographic study of how women inhabit, resist, and reimagine their roles in a context denned by deep contradictions – beauty and chaos, devotion and repression, tradition and transformation.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
5 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, the American pantry is a fast-changing jumble of contradictions and politics.—
Rohan Goswami,
semafor.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Denials.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/denials. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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