rejected
Example Sentences
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Although they rejected his claim for compensation, the courts left the door open to holding major emitters liable for climate-related payments.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
‘People in the U.S. need to wake up’: As a mortgage loan officer, I rejected applications from wealthy couples.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Ishaan Shah recalls being rejected by the quantitative-trading club at Penn in his first semester of college.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
He said a locum neurologist referred him to a specialist clinic in another south of Scotland health board, but he was rejected because he didn't live in the right area.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Aristotle rejected the creation of the universe out of the void because he believed that the void could never exist.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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