How to Use rejection in a Sentence

rejection

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  • The rejections could take place in days instead of a process that can take years.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
  • Caring about things outside of work takes the sting off of rejection.
    — Caitlin Brody, Glamour, 5 July 2023
  • The piece celebrates female might in the face of rejection.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The judge said probable cause was the standard of proof for a grand jury to indict in the rejection.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Don't run from rejection or pain and facing hard things.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 16 May 2024
  • Brown sought to portray him as a jilted ex-boyfriend who couldn't deal with rejection.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 18 July 2024
  • More important than the current defamation suit is the 2021 rejection of Banksy’s trademark by the EU.
    — Tyson Mitman, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
  • This rejection would occur before the immune system even had the chance to mount a response.
    — David Verhoeven, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
  • Is Naomi’s rejection of Blackness a part of the reason for her failure to live up to Bering’s legacy?
    — Laura Tanenbaum, The New Republic, 17 May 2023
  • But the process didn’t end after Mr Turnbull’s rejection.
    — Karla Grant, refinery29.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Last year, Thaler sued the office, challenging the rejection.
    — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The fact that Aristotle and Ptolemy remain better known today than Aristarchus shows the force of the rejection.
    — Gary Simon, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Parents at a June public hearing spoke against the rejection of the curriculum, which is for grades 1-5.
    — Melissa Alonso, CNN, 22 July 2023
  • His sculptures were often met with ridicule and rejection.
    — Julia Fischer, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2023
  • For 54 hours, the kidney produced urine and seemed to perform like a human kidney transplant would, and there were no signs of rejection.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
  • What can be done to curb this bold rejection of authority?
    — Jerald McNair, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2024
  • Don’t feel too bad for us, though, as many of those rejections found homes in other publications.
    — Sam Corbin, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Even with a pig organ sitting outside the human body, there’s still a risk of rejection because the patient’s blood is moved through the pig liver.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The account of Wong’s lobbying for the role of O-lan, and her quest to retain her pride in the face of humiliating rejection, is one of the book’s strongest.
    — Mayukh Sen, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The pitcher, who grew up watching the Texas Rangers, had a rocky road to baseball’s big leagues, enduring disappointment and rejection along the way.
    — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The bill’s rejection has been seen as a disappointment for Black hair advocates in the state, with some feeling pushed aside by the leadership.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 11 Mar. 2024
  • If his son regarded your leaving as a personal rejection, Dan may be able to disabuse him of that idea and patch things up.
    — Abigail Van Buren, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
  • By the summer, she had been met with rejection after rejection.
    — Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The rejection seemed to make Testino more aggressive, Ritchson claims.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The events of 2020 radicalized a portion of the New Right and sped up its rejection of politics-as-usual and its embrace of state power.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 27 May 2023
  • Four defenders blocked a shot, led by Nathan Mensah’s five rejections.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Dating, Plato once said, is like enlisting in a gangbang of rejection, lizard-tongue make-outs, and 2 am doom-swiping.
    — Karley Sciortino, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Even a rejection can still teach you something that clarifies your path forward.
    — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2023
  • Your Jupiter and Saturn placement suggests a need for perfectionism and a fear of rejection.
    — Saam Niami, New York Times, 4 July 2023
  • Throughout hip-hop’s history, the culture’s founders were faced with adversity and rejection that drove them to succeed by any means necessary.
    — Amaya McDonald, ARTnews.com, 12 July 2024

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