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TAKE THE QUIZSynonyms of nixing
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as in rejecting
to be unwilling to grant
our supervisor nixed my request to work from home, if only on a trial basis
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as in dismissing
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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“Nixing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nixing. Accessed 7 Feb. 2023.
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