noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
categorical denial/assurance etc
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Can you give us a categorical assurance that no jobs will be lost?
denial of service attack
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
official
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Bombay: An official denial of moves to end price controls on steel triggered nervous long liquidation across the board.
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Despite official denials , William Waldegrave, the health secretary, is unpopular in Downing Street.
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The Army has consistently issued official denials of involvement.
■ NOUN
self
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In any case, self denial was a habit with them.
system
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Ultimately, only the strength of the denial system enables the sufferer to function at all.
■ VERB
issue
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The Army has consistently issued official denials of involvement.
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Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of Inkatha, on June 9 issued a denial of the allegations.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flat refusal/denial etc
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In many cases where a request has been made, it has met with a flat refusal.
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One or other of them drafted a statement which was a flat denial that he had misbehaved either sexually or politically.
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She had not anticipated a flat refusal.
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There'd been a chorus of objection then and a flat refusal from Becky to stay with the younger children.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A vigorous round of denials and, yesterday, the suspension of the archivist followed.
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At the medical products firm we mentioned earlier, symptoms of denial were rife.
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Doctrinaire denial of a generational injustice does no justice either to the truth or to the victims.
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I was in a place where I did not want to be in denial of anything.
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It is a denial of democracy to keep smears secret.
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Labour's stunning victory in 1997 left the Tory party in denial about the seriousness of its situation.
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This denial of pain extends to all aspects of life within the work place.