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gainsay

[geyn-sey, geyn-sey] / ˈgeɪnˌseɪ, geɪnˈseɪ /


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Since June, it’s been harder to gainsay him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

As an Episcopal priest, I’d be the last person to gainsay the importance of prayer.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2022

He’s only bringing it up to gainsay it: The best revenge, he argues, is revenge.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2020

Doyle’s enthusiasm for the Mars One experience thus far, which she describes as “probably the best and strangest of my life”, is hard to gainsay.

From The Guardian • May 30, 2015

Within the ANC, party members J. B. Marks, Edwin Mofutsanyana, Dan Tloome, and David Bopape, among others, were devoted and hardworking, and left nothing to gainsay as freedom fighters.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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