REBUFFED Synonyms: 72 Similar and Opposite Words

rebuffed

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past tense of rebuff

as in spurned

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Teams LeBron spurned, including the Heat and Timberwolves, have seen players like Bam Adebayo and Anthony Edwards playfully vow to challenge him.

— Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
But a brief meeting led to a connection between the quarterbacks and set in motion one of the most surprising flips in recruiting history when the five-star prospect spurned Georgia at the 11th hour for Vanderbilt.

— Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 30 July 2026

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Crump has also rejected notions from law enforcement officials that Wells may have drowned, citing the teenager’s ability to swim well and his athletic past.

— Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 5 Aug. 2026
Florida Crystals consistently rejected those criticisms, saying the company complied with environmental regulations, invested heavily in conservation and upheld labor standards.

— Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2026

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In February, Trump appointee Vinay Prasad—a Kennedy ally—refused to even review the vaccine, despite objections from FDA staff and career officials, shocking Moderna and the larger biomedical community.

— Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2026
Thursday's vote was along party lines, and came after Fauci refused to answer lawmakers' questions in a hearing last week about the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, citing his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination.

— Eric McDaniel, NPR, 6 Aug. 2026

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Now that the Chicago Bears have scorned Portage’s bid to build a stadium on the city’s north side, the Redevelopment Commission plans to repackage the site before offering it to other developers.

— Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026
James scorned his home area of Northeast Ohio, with Akron and Cleveland as his only homes, to that point.

— Zach Harper, New York Times, 24 July 2026

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But late last month, a three-judge panel at the California Courts of Appeal overruled that decision, and the five lawsuits are going ahead.

— Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 24 July 2026
Ultimately, Martínez-Olguín overruled most of the objections and denied most of the late opt-out requests.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 21 July 2026

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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

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All clubs have succession plans and Stuttgart’s Germany midfielder Angelo Stiller and Victor Froholdt of Porto, a Denmark international, are among the players to have been scouted intensively.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2026
Diaz scouted the stadium a day before and took a test shot imagining Loria on the pitcher’s mound and a view of the interior of the stadium.

— Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 4 Aug. 2026

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