rejection
Origin of rejection
1Other words for rejection
1, 2 | refusal, spurning, dismissal, elimination |
Other words from rejection
- non·re·jec·tion, noun
- pre·re·jec·tion, noun
Words Nearby rejection
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How to use rejection in a sentence
This comes after very public complaints from Microsoft regarding xCloud’s rejection from the App Store, which Apple denied because its App Store rules fundamentally did not allow game-streaming platforms on it.
Apple lays out its messy vision for how xCloud and Stadia will work with its App Store rules | Lucas Matney | September 11, 2020 | TechCrunchThe error was compounded by the botched early rollout of testing kits and rejection of tests manufactured in other countries.
Times of strife can lead to medical innovation—when governments are willing | By Jeffrey Clemens/The Conversation | September 9, 2020 | Popular-ScienceIt must’ve been a combo of getting used to rejection but then also not taking it as rejection.
After Playing So Many Roles, Who Is the Real Tatiana Maslany? | Eromo Egbejule | September 4, 2020 | OzyThis kind of affect-laden, motivated thinking explains a wide range of examples of an extreme, evidence-resistant rejection of historical fact and scientific consensus.
Coronavirus Responses Highlight How Humans Are Hardwired To Dismiss Facts That Don’t Fit Their Worldview | LGBTQ-Editor | July 2, 2020 | No Straight NewsSince its last rejection, that request has gotten even harder for a project that’s been kicking around for 15 years.
Morning Report: Lilac Hills Is Back (Again) | Voice of San Diego | June 24, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
Yet, what my peers do not realize – or cannot handle – is that rejection is a necessary part of forging a romantic relationships.
Random Hook-Ups or Dry Spells: Why Millennials Flunk College Dating | Ellie Schaack | January 1, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTKanye refuses to stomach any rejection, no matter how upper crust.
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s Balmain Campaign: High Fashion Meets Low Culture | Amy Zimmerman | December 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd the rejection of that belief is the basic reason a person is a Republican.
Democrats Are Petrified of Defending Government—but They Need to Start | Michael Tomasky | December 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“We opened the Toronto Film Festival with The Fifth Estate, and there was an immediate rejection of it,” he says.
To be sure, the election was not an embrace of the GOP platform, but it was a wholesale rejection of Barack Obama.
A little inquiry by the officers showed that the trouble originated in the rejection of the bills by the railroad.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; | VariousThe rejection of the reform bill produced an extraordinary sensation throughout the country.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. NolanThe rejection of' his motion irritated the already inflamed minds of the Chartists.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. NolanSoon after its ignominious rejection the gout laid hold on Chatham, and he did not appear in parliament again for two years.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William HuntNorth gave way and, in obedience to instructions, Harcourt procured the rejection of the bill.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William Hunt
Cultural definitions for rejection
A process in which the immune system of a body attacks an organ or tissue, either its own or tissue transplanted into it from another organism. (See xenotransplantation.)
Notes for rejection
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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