refusing
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Police said in a statement that six people were arrested in Lisbon and seven in Porto for refusing orders to disperse.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
Now New Zealand is refusing to issue her a transit visa that would allow her to fly home to Sri Lanka.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
It was a reclamation of beauty standards, in which icons like the Brat singer Teresa Covarrubias adopted the visual markers of shadow and decay, refusing to render themselves more easily readable or palatable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
It is 1862, and Washington’s Oak Hill Cemetery is inhabited by ghosts who are trapped in limbo—or, in Tibetan Buddhist terms, the bardo—most refusing to believe that they are dead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
My refusing to take the can of sour mash made Jimbo madder than I had ever seen him.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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