dismiss
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These caveats aren’t intended to dismiss the risks from AI, especially given its rapidly growing ability to train itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Last week, the FCC asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026
None of this means that consumers should be denied access to emerging tests, or that physicians should dismiss people who ask about them.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
Elle is now urging other young people to be aware of the symptoms of sepsis, while the charity Sepsis Research said it was important to never dismiss symptoms that are severe or getting worse.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Those tales serve a purpose, William, and how dare you dismiss our traditions as superstition? There is a reason they have survived.”
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
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He dismisses concerns about its effectiveness, including suggestions that alleviated symptoms could be due to a placebo effect.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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
Claire’s hum comes out of nowhere, and while no one quite dismisses her as a “hysteric,” stress and anxiety are offered as diagnoses, to her immense irritation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Mazen dismisses my words with the wave of a hand.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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Maresca looked back to last September when goalkeeper Robert Sanchez was dismissed after only five minutes for former side Chelsea at the same venue - a defeat which he referenced after Sunday's game.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
“Big Short” investor Michael Burry, who has been bearish on the AI trade, dismissed Amodei and Altman’s concerns as “self-serving” and “puffery” ahead of planned initial public offerings.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Wildeford dismissed the idea that the common funding sources were “some giant firestorm conspiracy theory” and said AI lab employees often tell him “how afraid they are of what they are building.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The US leader has similarly dismissed criticism for accepting a new Air Force One plane gifted by Qatar -- aboard which he arrived in Ireland.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
When school was dismissed, I walked home with Charlie and the rest of the children and thought nothing of it.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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Also worth noting is Yann LeCun, who shared the Turing Award with Hinton and Bengio and has spent years dismissing their warnings of existential danger as overblown.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
“But I’m not dismissing the threat because it is very real.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Donaghy said there was "a culture of dismissing and setting aside patients and families who raise concerns as being difficult, abrasive and denying people access to be heard".
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Despite developing the machine with scientists, Ernetti’s claims of what he saw — including Christ’s crucifixion — quickly became sensationalized fodder, with some believing in Ernetti’s discovery and others dismissing it as a hoax.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
In fact, he had very bad judgement when it came to good science, dismissing the work of Copernicus and Gilbert out of hand.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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