as in to shrug off
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That same year, Rodrigo shrugged off rumors of a feud between the two.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
18 June 2025 -
The Cuomo campaign has shrugged off the cross-endorsements and calls from groups to not rank the former governor.—
Oren Oppenheim,
ABC News,
17 June 2025
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In response, Congress passed legislation seeking to limit a president's ability to wage war against Iran, which was again quickly rejected by Trump.—
Mariam Khan,
ABC News,
23 June 2025
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That kind of backlash prompted officials in La Mesa, Oceanside, Vista and Carlsbad to reject digital billboard proposals.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 June 2025
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Kiser's attorneys also filed a notice to dismiss some agencies from the lawsuit, and the court sealed a declaration Kiser wrote about this case.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
18 June 2025
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Operation Ajax, a joint CIA-British operation, convinced the Shah of Iran, the country’s monarch, to dismiss Mossadegh and drive him from office by force.—
Jeffrey Fields,
The Conversation,
18 June 2025
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In September 2024, she was mocked online after releasing a single.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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Tonally, the show is all over the place, laying on the moody theatrics one moment, mocking Dave’s writerly pretenses the next.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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The below members of the Accessibility 100 defy categorization, but their impact remains undeniable.—
Alan Schwarz,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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Baseball has always defied predictability, and that especially goes for the final outcome of each season: The 83-win St. Louis Cardinals won it all in 2006, for instance, while the 116-win Seattle Mariners didn’t even make the World Series in 2001.—
Neil Paine,
New York Times,
17 June 2025
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Presumably a runaway, Carol’s disappearance earned her family scorn and erasure.—
Paula L. Woods,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2025
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Gauguin never outgrew the juvenile urge to scorn, shock, or just prank the elders.—
Susan Tallman,
The Atlantic,
30 May 2025
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Thousands of people were arrested by the LAPD and other agencies for failure to disperse, disobeying a lawful order and other minor offenses following the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, but both the Los Angeles city attorney’s office and former Dist.—
Salvador Hernandez,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2025
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Federal judges ruled Thursday that Alabama intentionally discriminated against Black residents when the state disobeyed court orders to draw a second Black-majority congressional district.—
Cheyanne M. Daniels,
The Hill,
9 May 2025
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With the shipbuilding industry concentrated in the American North, the Confederates turned to those willing to flout neutrality laws and sell them ships despite pressure from American diplomats.—
Francine Uenuma,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 June 2025
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Most Popular Most Popular Judge finds Florida attorney general in contempt of court for flouting immigration order Judge finds Florida attorney general in contempt of court for flouting immigration order Will a new fireworks law stop mortar blasts in Orlando neighborhood?—
Amy Drew Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 June 2025
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