denial
Example Sentences
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When the doctor tells him, “Sire, you are incurable,” he reacts with the same denial that has allowed him to ignore the destruction that has occurred under his negligent leadership.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
It does not say that denial must be intentional in the narrow sense the court now prefers.
From Slate • May 8, 2026
Le Pen has long sought to make the party she inherited from her father Jean-Marie more palatable, including by distancing it from the antisemitic legacy of a man convicted for Holocaust denial.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
Without land-enabled options, deterrence shifts from denial to punishment.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
Then, again led by Paul and Burns, they went on a hunger strike, a strategy designed to attract public attention to what the denial of women’s right to vote had led to.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
Vocabulary lists containing denial
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
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