dismissed
Example Sentences
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A planning inspector appointed by Welsh ministers has now dismissed the appeal after seeing the cabin during a visit to the land.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
A lawsuit that accused an Orange County Board of Education trustee of choking and attacking a neighbor during a road rage incident has been dismissed, court records show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Cubans have dismissed the move as a drop in the ocean of their needs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
The whole Viking bit, which might otherwise have been dismissed as a stereotype, instead became the team’s identity, right down to the runic-style characters on the Norwegian jerseys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Or take Thomas Browne, who dismissed the garlic/magnet antipathy as ‘certainly false’ in 1646.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
