reject
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A Telegram spokesperson said the platform's "extensive" anti-terrorism efforts were "well documented", adding: "We reject these allegations and will contest them in court."
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
"Telegram's efforts in the fight against terrorism are well documented. We reject these accusations and will challenge them in court," the company said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Mortgage employees face backlash from their bosses, financial advisers and others in the wealth department when they delay loan approvals or reject them, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
And facts so clean that a satirist would reject them as too on the nose: one six-pack, one dry village, one retired pilot, one $95,000 plane.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
At the same time, he wondered whether his own logic was faulty, since he based his arguments on geometry, whose infinitely divisible lines automatically reject atomism.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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But Hezbollah rejects the agreement outright despite Lebanese government pressure, lowering expectations of success in the negotiations.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Gaines said in an interview that his sentence about “traditional style” has been misunderstood, and he rejects the claims of cultural insensitivity that have been leveled against him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
But it notes that the artist rejects that incendiary political reading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Yet Bandar Abbas's mayor rejects suggestions the war has left Iran weakened.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Hattie also attends a private school, an “arts and humanities” school that rejects all forms of standardized tests.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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Thompson also rejected Jones’ criticism of his fundraising, saying he has “done a lot of good work that’s not necessarily in the interests” of those who have contributed to his campaign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
A Minnesota librarian, James Michael McConnell, had sought to marry a law student, Richard John Baker, and had been rejected for a marriage license.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
The Department of Homeland Security rejected the allegations, defending its immigration enforcement efforts and criticizing the ACLU’s characterization of federal operations.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
That could mean replenishments are rejected or undeliverable among friendly nations during an active conflict.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
If the water hadn’t rejected Yakov, he would have merely been another disappearance.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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More than 800 union workers have been locked out of oil company BP’s Whiting, Ind., refinery since March after rejecting the company’s contract offer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
But sources say in addition to rejecting Infantino's plan, the vast majority of the Concacaf members are either losing faith in the Fifa president's ability to govern the game, or have lost it altogether.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
“Rural communities cannot build their futures by rejecting new technology before it’s evaluated,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
He wrote the court’s four major rulings rejecting discrimination based on sexual orientation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West may indeed have been an “incongruity,” as the directors had declared in rejecting his request for a concession within Jackson Park, but the citizens of Chicago had fallen in love.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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