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spurn

[spurn] / spɜrn /


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At Anthropic, Rao has chosen to raise less money than is available and to spurn the highest valuations offered.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Neither country - nor the rest of Asean - could afford to spurn Trump's request for this ceremony.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025

With surprising speed, however, this country’s leaders came to spurn McKinley’s embrace of a colonial empire with its costly, complicated occupation of overseas territories.

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2025

Four-star Georgia linebacker Jadon Perlotte was also expected to spurn the Trojans in spite of his previous commitment to Entz and USC.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024

The first I chose was Céline Varens—another of those steps which make a man spurn himself when he recalls them.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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