rejection
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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s immediate rejection of the idea brought Kushner back into the mix to see if he could resurrect a little of that old Kissinger magic.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Dong referred to the SEC’s previous rejection of ETFs tied to “binary outcomes” in prediction markets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Each time, Perkins says she revised the pitch deck to put the hardest question from the last rejection at the front of the deck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
It’s also hard for somebody at my age to handle that level of rejection, especially when you get so close to something.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
That morning, I talked to him about isolation and rejection, about how universal they were to people like him and like me, but how temporal they often were.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
After 23 years of struggle and 60 rejections, I’d sold a hardcover memoir to Random House that led to a series of books.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Despite rejections from Uefa and Concacaf, Fifa initially vowed to continue with its proposals on Friday, saying "nobody is selling football".
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Outright rejections are rare, though in 2021 another U.K. digital bank, Monzo, withdrew an application after the regulator said approval was unlikely.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
But applying for job after job since 2024 has so far resulted only in rejections.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
After all of the recent rejections, this assessment of my potential ignited a spark that I thought had long since been extinguished.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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