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rejection

[ri-jek-shuhn] / rɪˈdʒɛk ʃən /


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For long-term-care hospitals, initial rejection rates were as high as 80%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

"Kim's core message was a categorical rejection of reports of US-China discussions on North Korean denuclearisation as 'false information'", he said.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

“Another Dimension” is his answer to the years of rejection, pain and incandescent ire, but transmuted into a vibrant, avant-garde, genre-defying gaping wound found within 11 tight tracks.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

She says they were pitched as giving single people "access to a virtually infinite pool of strangers" and sparing them "from the possibility of rejection".

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

In Vienna he had lived first with the fear of her, then the joke of her, finally the obsession, followed by rejection of her.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison




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