I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dispute/reject a claim (= say it is not true )
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The Prime Minister rejected claims of a disagreement within his party.
refuse/reject a request ( also turn down sb’s request )
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He rejected their request for a meeting.
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This request was turned down because of the cost.
refuse/reject/turn down an application (= say no to an application )
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Their planning application was rejected because of a lack of parking facilities.
reject a plan
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The plan was rejected on the grounds that it would cost too much money.
reject a proposal
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Councillors had twice rejected proposals for a new village school.
reject a resolution
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The National Assembly rejected the resolution.
reject a suggestion (= not do what is suggested )
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The government rejected the suggestion of a referendum.
reject/dismiss a notion
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Aristotle rejected the notion that the body and the soul are separate.
rejected...outright
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They rejected the deal outright .
reject/turn down sb's resignation
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Initially, his resignation was rejected.
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He offered his resignation but it was turned down by the Prime Minister.
turn down/refuse/reject/decline an offer (= say no to it )
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She declined the offer of a lift.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
outright
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Diplomatic negotiations were rejected outright as insufficiently forceful.
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Federal courthouses receive thousands of such pleas each year from state prisoners; virtually all are rejected outright .
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In November Fretilin offered the government unconditional peace talks, but the move was rejected outright by the government.
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He rejected outright the idea that he was a special case.
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Yet his proposals were denounced in the provinces, delayed in the Duma and rejected outright in the State Council.
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The changes required are not so great that it should be rejected outright .
■ NOUN
appeal
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In May 1986 the Supreme Court rejected his final appeals and Pinkerton was executed by lethal injection.
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He rejected a mild appeal from Bernstein to run the quotation intact.
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A differently composes Court of Appeal rejected an appeal by the local authority on the substantive questions.
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The Supreme Court rejected his appeal .
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The latter two issues have been rejected on appeal .
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On April 28 the Supreme Court rejected an appeal by former Col.-Gen.
application
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His views were echoed by the sub-committee which twice rejected the couple's application .
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Once users became accustomed to the standard conventions of Macintosh computing, they would reject applications that flouted those standards.
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But Mr Justice Buckley rejected the application in April.
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Magistrates rejected an application for the press to be excluded from the hearing.
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A City of London County Court judge rejected the jail application on a legal technicality.
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In the meantime it's up to the city council to decide whether to accept or reject the planning application .
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Croydon rejected their application , advocating some-race adoption.
argument
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The Federal Court ended the battle by rejecting all arguments presented on his behalf.
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The justices, without comment, rejected that argument .
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The judge rejected the argument that publication of the information in an article would be in the public interest.
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Wilson denied him clemency and two judges rejected his arguments .
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The opposing lobby rejected that argument .
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The court rejected this argument on the basis of Hazelwood v. Kublmeier.
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However this may be, it is plain that the district judge must have tacitly rejected the argument .
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But a California court rejected the argument , and Kennedy settled.
bid
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Your Board and its financial advisers Purchase and Szell continue to recommend strongly that you reject the bid .
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Wagenbach rejected a bid by Elliott to introduce as evidence an offer made to Mrs Moon to take a lie detector test.
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Police chiefs were asked to return to the drawing board after the Treasury rejected their bid for more than £200m.
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A Superior Court and state appeals court rejected her bid for parental rights.
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Morland rejects: Small independent brewer Morland last night rejected a £101.3m takeover bid from larger rival Greene King.
bill
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Today, we would reject a proposed Bill of Rights out of hand.
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Ministers are seeking a compromise that would reassure rebel peers who rejected a bill abolishing the clause last week.
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I hope that the House will reject the Bill , but I fear that it will not.
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Formally, the House is free to pass or reject bills as it wishes.
claim
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Lord Cullen rejected the Timex claim , however.
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She estimated Medicare could save $ 2 billion annually by using computers to reject improper claims .
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Once again, in their view, the world would have rejected their country's claim to international respect.
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The Court only examined and rejected a claim based on religious beliefs of immunity from an unquestioned general rule.
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The rejected claims could be resubmitted for further review by the carrier.
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Last month an industrial tribunal unanimously rejected their claim for unfair dismissal.
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Their Lordships rejected the claim saying that the statutory scheme showed that leave was to be exparte.
demand
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President Wahid has thus far rejected all such demands .
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The government has strongly rejected the demands , insisting that Congress is the only legitimate forum for negotiating national issues.
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Despite the country's mounting problems at home and abroad, the Prime Minister arrogantly rejects Labour demands to recall Parliament.
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Particularly since, almost invariably, the colonists used socialist slogans to reject any nationalist demands and justify the elimination of nationalists.
government
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In Committee, the Government rejected our fair rates proposals.
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The government has strongly rejected the demands, insisting that Congress is the only legitimate forum for negotiating national issues.
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The government rejected these proposals out of hand and after two months dissolved the assembly.
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I.,-based Hasbro $ 100 million if the government rejected the deal on antitrust grounds.
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The Government rejected it for precisely the reasons that I mentioned.
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Such a move was considered by the government but rejected after protests from the tourist industry and local people.
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The Government has also rejected calls for older Magnox nuclear power stations to be phased out to support a higher coal burn.
idea
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But they have stopped short of rejecting the idea altogether.
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But the poet Goethe roundly rejected that idea .
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We have just seen how Kierkegaard rejected any idea that faith could be proved by the appeal to historical argument.
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But almost in the same instant she rejected that idea .
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If we reject cyclic ideas and even uniformitarianism, what have we left?
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Brady, however, rejected the idea .
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He backed manager Brian Little with a two-year contract and rejected the idea of operating with part-timers in the Vauxhall Conference.
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It rejected any idea that an organisation should ever be created to suit the individual characteristics of people.
notion
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On 18 January 1956 the Committee's Joint Declaration rejected the notion that integration should be confined to only six countries.
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First, he rejected the notion that males were indispensable to the rearing of young.
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And we reject Labour's job-destroying notion of a national minimum wage.
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The group approach explicitly rejects the notion that a small elite dominates the resource allocation process.
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It usually rejects the notion of a social system.
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For a moment I considered, but immediately rejected , the notion of leaving Hsu Fu or calling off the expedition.
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But he quickly rejected the notion , realising the furore it would cause.
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But Gilligan does not, in fact, reject the notion of a rights-based morality.
offer
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Uncle Jack fell into the latter category, Ursula vehemently rejecting his offer to lend a hand.
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Niedecker rejected the offer and reported the approach to his superiors.
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It says it rejected earlier offers of Fondiaria's shares as too expensive.
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Shareholders have three weeks to decide whether to accept or reject the offer .
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Felix rejected an offer of the see after Bishop Maximus died and lived his days out in piety.
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The customer sold the car to X. The finance company rejected the offers .
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Nation anxiously telephoned his agent to ask if she had formally rejected the Doctor Who offer .
plan
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However, polls show that more than 60 % of Ecuadoreans reject the plan .
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Lanier rejected the plan after Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander said he would have no part of it.
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Members have also rejected a £6.7m rescue plan .
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The ministry already rejected one such plan submitted last October by Daiwa.
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But consumer groups, which have insisted that genetically modified foods should be labelled as such, rejected the plan .
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He said in a 1994 interview that as prime minister he rejected a military plan to sell heroin to finance covert operations.
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Director of development services Stephen Tapper urged the committee to reject the plans because they conflicted with planning policies.
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The council rejected the plan , but a fee may be coming.
proposal
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The government rejected these proposals out of hand and after two months dissolved the assembly.
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The United States rejected the proposal .
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On May 15, 16 leading opposition parties rejected the proposals .
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Councillors rejected completely the proposal for a management board with its implied differentiation of councillors into board members and the rest.
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However, the panel rejected several proposals pushed by consumer advocates, including coverage of experimental treatments.
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Taylor rejected Sawyer's proposals , apparently convinced that he could win military victory and install himself as president.
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Today you rejected a proposal of marriage, and now you shall be punished for your arrogance.
request
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Judge Nina Barkova rejected Pope's request during the trial for international medical aid.
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However it is quite proper to reject a request if the evidence is really being sought with a view to its use in criminal proceedings.
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He also rejected their requests to sequester the jury.
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The coroner, Peter Brunton, rejected a request to submit a technical report pointing to the possible involvement of a submarine.
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But last week, the town council unanimously rejected her request to officially add the tilde.
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The judge rejected his request and ordered his written statement impounded.
suggestion
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She also rejected the suggestion that they simply needed to make a telephone call home to solve differences with their parents.
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The general quickly rejected suggestions from Sen.
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Response Comment Half of the respondents rejected this suggestion and around one-third were in favour.
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Mr. Maclean I entirely reject that suggestion .
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Lady Ursula had gently but firmly rejected the suggestion that some one should stay.
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Bush rejected suggestions that he had chosen Thomas because he was black.
theory
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A fallible observation statement might be rejected and the fallible theory with which it clashes retained.
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Zeno and his followers rejected Plato's two-worlds theory of ideal forms and sense data.
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We naturally feel inclined to reject these theories for that reason.
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This is enough in itself to make us want to reject conditioned attention theory as it is presently formulated.
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What if there were Protestants campaigning vigorously for the empirical sciences who nevertheless rejected the Copernican theory ?
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Other Marxists reject Stamocap theory on several grounds.
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He rejected all evolutionary theories and stressed instead the essentially cyclical nature of change.
view
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It is probably best, therefore, to reject McCarthy's view that the town was never completely enclosed.
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Shaftesbury had rejected Hobbes's view of self-preservation as the basis of conduct.
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The joint opinion rejects that view .
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They participated forthrightly, rejecting the councillor's views on discipline.
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She rejects a purely romantic view of the relations of men and women.
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Those who rejected the conventional view and took up the cause of Czechoslovakian children were largely outside the mainstream of refugee aid.
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They rejected the liberal view that the commune was a barrier to economic progress.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As a child he was repeatedly rejected by both parents.
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As an adult, she rejected her Catholic upbringing.
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Bush rejected suggestions that his tax cuts favored the most wealthy.
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Catherine rejected many suitable men before settling on Tom.
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Ceara rejected calls for his resignation.
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Feminists rejected traditional notions of the role of women in society.
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Green or rotten apples are rejected.
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Ian was rejected by the army because of his bad eyesight.
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It was predicted that the Senate would reject the bill by about 60 to 40.
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Jim was rejected by every college he applied to.
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Judge Gifford rejected the defense's request.
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Lauren rejected her parents' offer of financial help.
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Mitchell was rejected by several law schools.
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People are free to accept or reject Stone's interpretation of the facts.
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Samantha had consistently rejected all Bob's offers of help.
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Several hundred people applied, but we had to reject nearly all of them.
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She's scared to try to talk to him about it in case he rejects her again.
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She rejected the idea that she should sue him.
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Some scholars reject parts of the Gospel as untrue.
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The audience is free to accept or reject Stone's interpretation of the facts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A design team rejected the aerospike concept as too risky.
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Do the Opposition favour it or reject it?
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He could not marry a girl of his own age and class, because her father would reject him.
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Lawmakers also rejected plans to use tobacco-tax money to provide health insurance for 100, 000 children of the working poor.
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Once again, in their view, the world would have rejected their country's claim to international respect.
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Reportedly it was a soup-to-nuts A-to-Z kind of thing that ISVs rejected out of hand as offering them nothing.
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Under the stress of circumstance, the conventional wisdom is rejected.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I got a rejection from Harvard, but I'm still waiting to hear from UCLA.
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Of course, you always risk rejection when you first ask someone out.
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Sometimes she began to question her outright rejection of her parents' values.
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the rejection of the Equal Rights Bill by a small majority
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the government's outright rejection of the proposals
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And yet Eve had never had anything new, she knew that whatever dress she got for today would be a reject .
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Equipment is decrepit, training is inadequate and the conscripts, increasingly, are society's rejects.
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Zoe Ball's poor kid sounds like a reject from Carry On Chef.