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rejection slip

NOUN
refusal to publish
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I never would just send back a rejection slip.

From Salon Oct. 13, 2018

In the form of a nasty putdown, a rejection slip or a banana.

From Washington Post May 5, 2017

I still have that rejection slip somewhere, typed on Konami letterhead with the company’s trademark orange and red logo.

From Time Mar. 27, 2014

It received a rejection slip from a Bill Taylor, thanking him for his trouble, but with encouragement enough to keep him trying for "the writers' newspaper" through stints in Guildford, Bristol, southern Rhodesia and Slough.

From The Guardian Jan. 25, 2013

Ten typed-up poems lay beneath a printed rejection slip from Criterion magazine, initialed by Mr. Eliot himself.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan



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