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as in to dismiss
to reject by or as if by a vote movie audiences have effectively nixed the idea of the reviving the old-fashioned western by emphatically ignoring this latest effort

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Recent Examples of nix As for the impeachment call, cooler heads prevailed on both sides of the aisle Tuesday, as House Democrats and Republicans voted 344 to 79 on a GOP motion to nix an article of impeachment brought by Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green. Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 25 June 2025 First things first: The new bill nixed the electric vehicle tax credit of up to $7,500, bringing to an end years of federal support for EVs. Aarian Marshall, Wired News, 11 July 2025 Trade policy and tariffs are in flux: There have been plenty of instances where announced tariffs have been postponed, suddenly nixed, or unexpectedly increased or decreased in size. Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 10 July 2025 The Trump administration’s budget request for NOAA in fiscal year 2026 would nix the warn-on forecast system and the agency’s research labs, which drive forecasting innovation. Evan Bush, NBC news, 8 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for nix
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nix
Verb
  • Her heir-apparent will have diminished authority, impossible expectations, and the unenviable task of modernizing an institution whose departing leader refuses to depart.
    Lilian Raji, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
  • Bondi earlier this week refused to answer questions from reporters about the Epstein files.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 July 2025
Verb
  • The felony charges were dismissed with prejudice, meaning they can't be refiled.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Courier-Journal, 25 July 2025
  • In previous cycles, price booms were often dismissed as driven by hype, memes, and momentum.
    Becca Bratcher, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
Verb
  • New York’s 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Maxwell’s appeal effort last year, finding that the deal drawn up in 2007 and approved the following year only protected Epstein and his coconspirators in South Florida.
    Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 15 July 2025
  • If anyone else tries such commands, the AGI and ASI reject them summarily.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
Verb
  • When Nguyen refused the search and denied the allegation, one deputy allegedly called him a liar and threatened to arrest him.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 22 July 2025
  • Trump denies writing the letter and sued the newspaper's publisher over the story July 18.
    Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 22 July 2025
Verb
  • The Ukrainian branch of Transparency International, a leading independent nonprofit group that monitors corruption around the world, previously urged Zelensky to veto the new law.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 23 July 2025
  • Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, voted for the law on July 22, despite the heads of NABU and SAPO imploring Zelensky to veto it.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
Verb
  • Brown-Forman's sales declined 5% in the 2025 fiscal year, partly due to ongoing tariff disputes.
    Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 25 July 2025
  • Attorneys for the three commissioners appointed by Biden reminded the Supreme Court that the justices twice in the past year declined to review appeals court decisions that upheld restrictions on the president’s ability to remove Consumer Product Safety Commission members without cause.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 24 July 2025
Verb
  • The man accused of pulling the trigger in a Christmas Day shooting that killed two Milwaukee teenagers is no longer on the run.
    Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 24 July 2025
  • Harvesting too much at once can damage your plant or possibly kill it.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 23 July 2025
Verb
  • Donald Trump promised to go after the worst of the worst, but his administration's heavy-handed tactics in many cases ignore people's constitutional rights and the rule of law.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
  • Having said that, beachgoers have already been ignoring signs and fencing to get to the beach, especially on weekends.
    Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 23 July 2025

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“Nix.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nix. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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