deny
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The proposed Westside affordable housing project known as Venice Dell has seen it all: neighborhood uproar, lawsuits, clashing city directives to alternatively approve and deny.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Craig and Lindsay Foreman, from East Sussex, have been held since January 2025 and were sentenced to 10 years in February on espionage charges which they deny.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
She rejected Washington's attempts to deny or challenge the North's status as a nuclear power, saying it "carries no legal force".
From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026
They urged commissioners to not repeat the same mistake and to deny the project’s plan until they have more details on the data center’s impact on traffic, roads, public safety, the watershed, and noise.
From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026
Reality has hit me like a fist; a truth I can no longer deny is clear.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Vocabulary lists containing deny
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act II
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19th Amendment (1920)
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