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rejection

[ri-jek-shuhn] / rɪˈdʒɛk ʃən /


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“Another Dimension” is his answer to the years of rejection, pain and incandescent ire, but transmuted into a vibrant, avant-garde, genre-defying gaping wound found within 11 tight tracks.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

She says they were pitched as giving single people "access to a virtually infinite pool of strangers" and sparing them "from the possibility of rejection".

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

I want to get into changing the conversation, but curious, is a reluctance to do so driven by a fear of rejection?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

The company cautioned last month that it faced mass layoffs and cutbacks in its manufacturing effort following the second BLA rejection.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Emma could not have desired a more spirited rejection of Mr. Martin’s prose.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen




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