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reject

[ri-jekt, ree-jekt] / rɪˈdʒɛkt, ˈri dʒɛkt /


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About 64% of the engineering unit and 72% of the technical unit voted to reject the contract offer.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

She urged the board to reject the rules.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

"Ultimately, we want to turn the anti-tumor immunity back on in cancer patients so their own immune systems can reject the tumors," she said.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

"We denounce and totally reject those claims that Africans are as guilty and complicit as those who masterminded this whole atrocity," he says.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

“How could you reject your station like that? It is an honor to be marked.”

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

But the government rejects the criticism, arguing that it has invested in ground-based resources, which it says are more effective, and purchased helicopters for water-bombing operations, with deliveries of the aircraft under way.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

The president of Buenos Aires' Banco Provincia, Juan Cuattromo, rejects the notion that Argentines are themselves to blame for getting in over their heads.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

With Ovy, Karol revived the shadowy timbre of her joint Shakira track “TQG” into the new “Bebiendo Lágrimas,” a reggaeton song that adamantly rejects the notion of love.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

If he rejects the contract, Arsenal are willing to accelerate their interest in the Brazilian.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

If she rejects me…well, it won’t be the worst thing that’s happened this summer.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

Workers rejected two proposed contracts before approving a six-year deal that included an immediate 10% raise and an $8,500 bonus for each worker.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

The 26-year-old was visiting from Scotland to attend a Celtics basketball game when his U.K. license got rejected from half-a-dozen bars in one night.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

Nicklin rejected requests by Harry and the others to pay on a standard basis, instead favouring arguments by ANL that its costs should be repaid on a stricter so-called indemnity basis.

From Barron's Aug. 21, 2026

A federal judge rejected the SEC’s own theory in the Ripple case, and industry estimates put the legal bill north of $400 million.

From MarketWatch Aug. 21, 2026

Indeed, he rejected the idea of a knowledge grounded in certainty, in proof.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

A federal district judge, rejecting that contract provision, ruled last month that GEO Group must let health inspectors in, writing that “GEO’s new contract cannot preempt state law, even if it purports to.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2026

And both have their reasons for rejecting science that interferes with their own interests.

From Salon Aug. 13, 2026

He is one of the very few local voices publicly rejecting the KWS preliminary findings, pointing out that no other animals have died.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

As the fused worms began rejecting foreign tissue, Chai detected a rise in activin followed by chronic inflammation.

From Science Daily Aug. 5, 2026

After recording them in my journal I'd flip through these pages, reading them to myself, pondering each idea, and rejecting them.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos




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