rebuff

Example Sentences

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The board’s decision to rebuff Paramount is the latest development in the fight for the future of Warner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

And those limits create a “judicial responsibility” for courts to rebuff the president when he deploys the Guard “in a situation far divorced” from what Congress envisioned.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025

Van Hollen's rebuff came a day after another US member of Congress, West Virginia Republican Riley Moore, was allowed by Salvadoran authorities to enter the prison.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2025

Anyway, it’s questionable whether the Senate could legally rebuff the governor’s call for a special session.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2024

I almost expected a rebuff for this hardly well-timed question, but, on the contrary, waking out of his scowling abstraction, he turned his eyes towards me, and the shade seemed to clear off his brow.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë