denial
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When study participants were asked to report on their experiences confronting other people, nearly 72% had heard a denial, attack, and reversal of victim and offender.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
The time has come for the denial to stop concerning water in the West.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
The denial of care, Kingdom says, made her gender dysphoria become incapacitating.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2026
TMO: The suit and the uniform are often associated with discipline, restraint and even the denial of pleasure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
“There’s still a lot of denial out there.”
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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Yet the denials have failed to stanch the concerns of shoppers and consumer activists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Despite the denials from Washington, many in Kyiv suspect the issues are not a coincidence.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
But a Times review of the leaked files found a 2005 student psychological assessment, despite district denials that such records had leaked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
When patients and their doctors appealed those denials, insurance companies reversed roughly 80% of their initial decisions.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
As she saw it, Jefferson’s denials only offered further evidence of his duplicity.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
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