declined
Example Sentences
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The FBI had not shown the Commission all the evidence it had gathered - and declined to comment when the BBC asked about this.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
When asked by BBC Sport to comment on the convictions and the potential safeguarding issues raised, the UK Foreign Office, Home Office, and Department for Culture, Media, and Sport declined to provide a response.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
New Mexico’s Insurance Superintendent Alice Kane recently told state lawmakers that insurers declined to renew more than 6,200 homeowner policies in 2025, the highest number ever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
He also declined to discuss his brother’s attempt to use family trust money to fund his legal defense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
General Grant and his wife had declined Lincoln’s invitation and boarded a train headed home instead.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
