as in isolating
to deliberately ignore or treat rudely
in his sad and lonely old age, he stiff-armed even once-beloved friends
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repelling
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Chechen media reported Wednesday that Russian forces were repelling drone attacks in the region.—
Rebecca Falconer,
Axios,
30 Dec. 2024 -
But that decline can be understood as a pragmatic understanding of the difficulties of repelling an invading force.—
Anton Grushetskyi,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Dec. 2024
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“Stiff-arming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stiff-arming. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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