refuse
Example Sentences
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"She started to isolate herself, she would shut herself in her bedroom and refuse to come out, and she wasn't engaging in conversation," she said.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
“It just can’t be that they’re going to refuse to return someone who was erroneously deported.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
Before the Affordable Care Act came into effect in 2014, insurers in the individual market could refuse coverage to people with serious pre-existing conditions or even those in high-risk jobs.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026
But she is likely to repeat language of recent weeks that the bank is "well positioned" to deal with the fallout from the war, and refuse to be drawn on future decisions.
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
Penelope would have much preferred to stay in the nursery, building triremes out of toothpicks with the children until bedtime, but she could hardly refuse Lady Constance.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing refuse
"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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"The Civil Rights Movement"
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"All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury
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