rejection
Example Sentences
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“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
After graduation, I was cast in a “Hannah Montana” episode and did some short films, but there also was rejection, which brought on body dysmorphia.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 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
No one knew her thoughts since the afternoon on which she had given Colonel Gerineldo Márquez his final rejection and shut herself up to weep.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing rejection
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 2
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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