rejection
Example Sentences
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FDA reviewers would have understood all this had they consulted melanoma doctors who tell us the RP1 rejection makes no sense and will cost thousands of lives.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
"If I apply to around 70 jobs per week and only hear back from three, the rest is complete silence - not even a rejection email," said Karyna, 21.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
Ford captured this at the end of his piece: American progressivism emerged out of a rejection of corruption and self-dealing in the Gilded Age.
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026
The rejection letter on Friday says the agency chose new staff for the second review “to maintain objectivity and account for potential bias.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
What matters for present purposes is Montaigne’s rejection not of the practical knowledge, of wine-making and bread-baking, of his day, but of the learned knowledge, of medicine, geography, astronomy.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing rejection
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