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This is at root a corporate-governance scandal as much as a spy caper, although we’re not as quick as some to dismiss the espionage element.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
I’d also be critical of, if not totally dismiss, any advice you find on TikTok or Instagram.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026
Instead, they organized, challenged their own party, and made themselves harder to dismiss.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2026
They could reduce the charges in a potential second trial or dismiss them altogether.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
I heard Anna May call my name, but I flung back my arm to dismiss her.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Oppenheim dismisses the comparison, saying their series isn’t a conventional documentary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
Constâncio, the former ECB official, dismisses the day-to-day correlation as meaning little, a mix of coincidences and co-movement rather than causation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
He dismisses the Taliban government's amnesty, announced days after their return to power which declared that former government officials, security personnel and civil servants would not face retaliation and were encouraged to return to work.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
He dismisses the theory, also put forward by the KWS, that the cyanide might have come from a type of foliage, noting local livestock would have died as well.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
The bell for lunch rings, and Missus Wilhelmina slowly finishes her sentence, to remind us that we aren’t allowed to leave until she dismisses us from class herself.
From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender
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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin dismissed speculation about a coordinated cyber assault on the United States, or any link to the Microsoft outage that affected services worldwide.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
Though it had been dismissed by doctors as ineffective and potentially dangerous, laetrile was everywhere, and so was the controversy over it.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2026
Sage is the second Premier League manager to be sacked this season, after Michael Carrick was also dismissed by Manchester United on Thursday.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
But department insiders have dismissed certain reports — namely any mentioning Gascón — as nothing more than rumors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
In spite of his efforts to please the Emperor, in the summer of 1630 Wallenstein fell from favour and was dismissed from his key post as commander of the army.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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After long dismissing hybrid technology as an unnecessary detour on the path to EVs, the automaker has made a dramatic about-face as Toyota, Honda and Hyundai see their hybrids drive big sales gains this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026
El Mayer said he "fully understood" the allegations but denied dismissing Collins' feelings.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
These realities don’t map to every experience yet following the NPC slander to its logical conclusion can be dangerous: declaring that a person’s alleged lack of inner thinking is justification for dismissing their humanity.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
“They’ve spent years dismissing SpaceX as a competitive threat while passing on opportunities that might have worked in their favor,” he added.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
He stepped into the darkness of the passage, dismissing the subject from his mind, and disappeared.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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