rebuff
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Cyrille Bollore, chief executive of top UMG shareholder the Bollore Group BOL 0.83%increase; green up pointing triangle , had urged the company to rebuff the offer, arguing that Ackman’s proposal undervalued it.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
They are seen as North Korea's latest rebuff of South Korea's peace overtures, according to analysts.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
And those limits create a “judicial responsibility” for courts to rebuff the president when he deploys the Guard “in a situation far divorced” from what Congress envisioned.
From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025
They might look to King Charles as their head of state, and head of the Commonwealth too, to strongly speak up for them and to rebuff such expansionist claims from the US president.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2025
He grew awkwardly into a tall, strange, dreamy boy with fragile eyes and a very delicate mouth whose tentative, groping smile collapsed instantly into hurt disorder at every fresh rebuff.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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