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demurral

[dih-mur-uhl] / dɪˈmɜr əl /


















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Or a polite demurral by the adult in the room?

From Slate • Jan. 20, 2025

It’s easy to see that attitude as standard executive demurral.

From The Verge • Jan. 4, 2019

“Gideon,” he would say, with the blunt regular demurral of Bartleby, “I do not generally like trying to visualize thousand-dimensional vectors in three-dimensional space.”

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2016

Cordially, Robert Moses This was no ordinary demurral over a book’s merits.

From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2016

Katherine Goble asked again, undeterred by the initial demurral.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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