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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rebuffed
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Labour spurned the chance to tell a positive story about the need to hike taxes to mend Britain’s public services, gutted by years of Conservative austerity.
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Just last week, UniQure announced it was cleared to submit an application for a Huntington’s disease gene therapy that the agency had previously spurned and that former commissioner Marty Makary appeared to disparage on national television.
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Indigenous groups protested the last time Mount Rushmore hosted a fireworks display, and former President Joe Biden's administration rejected subsequent attempts to have fireworks at the national monument.
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Judge Sullivan rejected the DOJ's arguments against releasing the materials and concluded that the Public Integrity Project, a public interest law firm, demonstrated that independent journalist Katie Phang was harmed by the materials being withheld.
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One, Sam Hentges, apparently refused to wear it at all, appearing in the traditional cap the Giants wear the other 161 games.
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Sojourner Truth refused to be defined by the stereotypes society tried to construct about her.
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Gerardo Ortiz What’s a música mexicana festival without a bit of yearning and scorned romance?
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For years, Knicks owner James Dolan has been scorned by fans.
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The watcher overruled the watched.
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The jury that presided over his criminal case voted 7-2 for Lee to receive a lifetime prison sentence rather than face the death penalty, but the trial judge overruled them.
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Musk has long disdained the norms that the executives who run giant public companies typically embrace.
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At his behest Aurangzeb—who disdained poetry—sent agents across India and Persia to assemble a literary circle befitting her.
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In recent years, the governor has vetoed legislation over collective bargaining concerns.
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State lawmakers have stepped back from earlier, wider-ranging attempts to regulate AI that were vetoed or otherwise derailed by governors who viewed the measures as too onerous toward the industry’s development, including efforts to hold developers accountable for bias in AI systems.
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The man scouted around the patio and yard area, apparently for something to obstruct the camera before settling on some greenery found in the yard.
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Next said in a statement Housez never scouted for the company.
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“Rebuffed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rebuffed. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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