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rejection

[ri-jek-shuhn] / rɪˈdʒɛk ʃən /


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She told Lloyd she was once her friend but was met with "blame, rejection and gaslighting" when she tried to "shift blame" on to her husband.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 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

I want to get into changing the conversation, but curious, is a reluctance to do so driven by a fear of rejection?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

The company cautioned last month that it faced mass layoffs and cutbacks in its manufacturing effort following the second BLA rejection.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

The big thing that Descartes got wrong was his rejection of the idea of a vacuum or ‘void’.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin




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