rebuffing

verb

Definition of rebuffingnext
present participle of rebuff
as in spurning

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rebuffing
  1. ignoring
  2. prohibiting
  3. dismissing
  4. forbidding
Verb
  • But should investors really be ignoring small caps in 2025?
    Bret Kenwell, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • See video … WATCH RAYMOND ARROYO – Biden rewarded murderers while ignoring the innocent and their families.
    Fox News, Fox News, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of ignoring
Verb
  • Smith, who is now winding down both his cases against the president-elect due to a longstanding Department of Justice policy prohibiting the prosecution of a sitting president, has not provided any details about the contents of his report.
    Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 8 Jan. 2025
  • That has prompted states including Colorado, New York and California to enact legislation prohibiting medical debt from being included on residents' credit reports or factored into their credit scores.
    Noam Levey, NPR, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of prohibiting
Verb
  • Top Stories Just before Christmas, Biden egregiously commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 death row inmates, dismissing years of careful work by prosecutors, judges, and juries.
    The Editors, National Review, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The company stuck to its core DVD rental model while dismissing opportunities to innovate on the periphery.
    ByMargie Warrell, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of dismissing
Verb
  • The future, in itself, exerts an attractive force—not just the general future, with its bland procession of potential events, but the futuristic future, with its alluring, fascinating, and forbidding narrative turns.
    Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Republicans have added a rider to the must-pass defense authorization bill, forbidding such care for minors.
    Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of forbidding
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rebuffing

rebuffs

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