as in rejections
an unwillingness to grant something asked for
his flat refusal of our reasonable request was rather startling
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Recent Examples of refusals
Associated Press What To Know The court emphasized that the law underpinning the travel ban does not authorize such visa refusals and declined to defer to the State Department's historical practice, citing Supreme Court precedent limiting agency discretion.
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Dan Gooding
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
Durov was forced out as CEO in 2014 after several arguments with the Russian state over censorship and refusals to hand over user data.
—Ryan Hogg, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
The researchers tested 3,840 AI query-response pairs across 480 participants, comparing direct refusals, explanations, redirection, partial compliance and full compliance.
—Victor Dey, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Dan Gooding
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
Durov was forced out as CEO in 2014 after several arguments with the Russian state over censorship and refusals to hand over user data.
—Ryan Hogg, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
The researchers tested 3,840 AI query-response pairs across 480 participants, comparing direct refusals, explanations, redirection, partial compliance and full compliance.
—Victor Dey, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for refusals
Noun
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But despite two rejections from Julie, Todd persisted.—
Lynsey Eidell,
People.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Musleh has gone through the rejections trying to find a pattern, and found that doctors who had previously served on missions in Gaza were more likely to be rejected than first-timers.—
Jane Arraf,
NPR,
28 Aug. 2025
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Her plaintive denials on screen are robbed of any credibility by an inescapable sense of overwhelming resentment.—
Daniel Jonah Wolpert,
NPR,
8 Sep. 2025
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Sometimes, when patients and doctors shame insurers online, denials get overturned.—
Lauren Sausser,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Refusals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refusals. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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