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reject

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


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And facts so clean that a satirist would reject them as too on the nose: one six-pack, one dry village, one retired pilot, one $95,000 plane.

From Slate Jul. 28, 2026

“If an unwanted inheritance is anticipated from a family member, it might be beneficial to use a qualified disclaimer to reject the bequest,” says Baker Tilly, a New York-based advisory, tax and assurance firm.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

In response, Hugo Boss’s managing supervisory boards unanimously recommended that shareholders reject the offer, saying the bid didn’t adequately value its standalone prospects and seemed designed to enable Frasers to increase its shareholding beyond 30%.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

When questioned on how some foreign nationals had been treated by anti-migrant protesters, Dube said March and March rejected "any form of violence - we reject any form of anti-law".

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

All the stands are surrounded by chain-link fences, and the prizes look like they came from the reject crane machine pile.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

CoreWeave is often referred to as a “neocloud,” but the company rejects that term because it doesn’t describe what it does, only making the point that it follows an earlier generation of clouds.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

But Hezbollah rejects the agreement outright despite Lebanese government pressure, lowering expectations of success in the negotiations.

From Barron's Jul. 14, 2026

Gaines said in an interview that his sentence about “traditional style” has been misunderstood, and he rejects the claims of cultural insensitivity that have been leveled against him.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

Google's chief executive Sundar Pichai blogged in response, external at the time to the original fine that the decision "rejects the business model that supports Android, which has created more choice for everyone, not less."

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

For our annual Christmas card, we used one of the rejects from last year’s photo shoot.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio

The agency is reconsidering many treatments rejected by the previous regime and has scheduled public hearings with outside experts to review medicines.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

As a longtime art writer, I was always drawn to Dadaism, the avant garde art movement that rejected conventions and wasn’t afraid to break all the rules.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

Diplomatic tensions have also grown between South Africa and Ghana following claims that a Ghanaian man was killed during anti-migrant protests in South Africa, allegations South African officials have rejected.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

It rejected the assumption that both shared: that public safety must remain an institutional monopoly.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

Despite these dire warnings, he still refused to be treated, and he even rejected taking pain medicine to ease his agony.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

He wrote the court’s four major rulings rejecting discrimination based on sexual orientation.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

That publication has been a proponent for changing, extending or rejecting the legal definition of genocide enshrined in the 1948 Genocide Convention, formulated by Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

In other words, the detector may be able to select the desired events while rejecting many unrelated signals.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

"Granting a monopoly to a company for several years seemed tricky," he said, rejecting suggestions the project was designed to favour European interests.

From Barron's Jul. 3, 2026

Is this enough evidence to warrant rejecting an assumption that the subject does not have ESP?

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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