rebuffed

verb

past tense of rebuff
as in spurned

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rebuffed
  1. spurned
  2. rejected
  3. refused
  4. scorned
  5. overruled
  6. disdained
  7. vetoed
  8. scouted
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  • And many of the best and brightest scientists and researchers spurned by America are going to other countries and are hired by businesses abroad that compete with our own—including, as Lee anticipated, China.
    — Robert Hormats, Time, 4 July 2026
  • Beulah's spurned heir Joaquin (Juan Pablo Raba) calls up the mysterious Mariana (Raoul Max Trujillo) to help with his many problems, which include his ranch-usurping half-brother Rob-Will and those Duttons from Montana.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 3 July 2026
Definition of spurned
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  • The Senate, the upper house where conservatives hold a majority, rejected the bill.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 July 2026
  • Born in 1946 amid the bombing of Frankfurt, Ruppert instead developed a psychosexual cosmology that rejected neat distinctions between prey and predator.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2026
Definition of rejected
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  • Starlink’s satellite internet has launched in around two dozen other African countries, but Musk has refused to follow South Africa’s affirmative action regulations.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 16 July 2026
  • Meanwhile, Jay Clayton refused to acknowledge Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election during his confirmation hearing to become director of national intelligence.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 16 July 2026
Definition of refused
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  • The season ended with Beth and Rip’s adopted son Carter (Finn Little) being abducted by the family that Beulah scorned when going into business with the infamous Beth Dutton.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2026
  • That sent a chill through a fan base that has been scorned many times by some of the organization’s top players.
    — Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 1 July 2026
Definition of scorned
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  • Regents overruled a faculty task force, which had found the tests to be predictive of college success across demographics and recommended keeping them.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
  • This was then overruled by the Court of Cassation in November 2025, which referred the case back to the Court of Appeal.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 July 2026
Definition of overruled
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  • Raised in a household of voracious readers in suburban Philadelphia, her father a professor of Spanish at the University of Pennsylvania and her mother having worked for magazines, Sebold disdained the university’s frat culture.
    — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
  • Musk has long disdained the norms that the executives who run giant public companies typically embrace.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
Definition of disdained
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  • There were some like animal services that were in there that got vetoed.
    — CBS Miami Team, CBS News, 12 July 2026
  • Beshear vetoed the 2021 and 2024 changes, but Republican lawmakers overrode him.
    — Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Definition of vetoed
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  • New York also scouted Wiggins’ bullpen sessions leading up to the draft.
    — Will Sammon, New York Times, 12 July 2026
  • She was eventually scouted and traveled to London to record a few demos but did not immediately hear back.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
Definition of scouted
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