scoff at
Example Sentences
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Of course, statisticians would scoff at using one past episode to try to make a prediction about oil prices 36 years later.
From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026
You want to scoff at that, but you can’t.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
“King of the Hill” camps out somewhere on the rich land between, acknowledging an exurban populace bound to a set of values supposed “elites” might scoff at.
From Salon • Aug. 4, 2025
Human rights activists here, and independent analysts, scoff at that idea.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025
North American researchers tended to scoff at the notion that some mysterious non-Indians had lived fifteen thousand years ago in the heart of Brazil, but South Americans, Pena among them, were less dismissive.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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