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  • verb Present participle of rebuff.

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Examples

  • Until that "rebuffing" is made public, and we see that it does, in fact, address all the questions that have been raised, explaining how the wrong date for Ergun Caner's coming to America had been posted for so long, etc., it is nothing but whitewashing.

    Pros Apologian 2010

  • Until that "rebuffing" is made public, and we see that it does, in fact, address all the questions that have been raised, explaining how the wrong date for Ergun Caner's coming to America had been posted for so long, etc., it is nothing but whitewashing.

    Pros Apologian 2010

  • Despite threats, over 57 per cent of the Jharkhand electorate voted that year "rebuffing" the Maoists.

    The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage 2009

  • In rebuffing the European Union's request for revaluing, the Chinese prime minister claimed allowing the yuan to appreciate too quickly would bankrupt Chinese factories as their prices rose to uncompetitive levels, and the resulting exodus of unemployed workers to the countryside would provoke social unrest.

    Leo W. Gerard: To Counter Currency Manipulation: Rally Some Allies Leo W. Gerard 2010

  • In rebuffing the European Union's request for revaluing, the Chinese prime minister claimed allowing the yuan to appreciate too quickly would bankrupt Chinese factories as their prices rose to uncompetitive levels, and the resulting exodus of unemployed workers to the countryside would provoke social unrest.

    Leo W. Gerard: To Counter Currency Manipulation: Rally Some Allies Leo W. Gerard 2010

  • Turkey's current account gap will start to improve from the last quarter of the year, Mr. Basci said, rebuffing concerns over the country's rapidly widening deficit.

    Turkey September Deficit Hits Record Joe Parkinson 2011

  • Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior PLO leader, said Mr. Abbas had nothing to risk by rebuffing Washington.

    U.S. Uses Veto Power on U.N. Resolution Joe Lauria 2011

  • In rebuffing the European Union's request for revaluing, the Chinese prime minister claimed allowing the yuan to appreciate too quickly would bankrupt Chinese factories as their prices rose to uncompetitive levels, and the resulting exodus of unemployed workers to the countryside would provoke social unrest.

    Leo W. Gerard: To Counter Currency Manipulation: Rally Some Allies Leo W. Gerard 2010

  • In rebuffing the European Union's request for revaluing, the Chinese prime minister claimed allowing the yuan to appreciate too quickly would bankrupt Chinese factories as their prices rose to uncompetitive levels, and the resulting exodus of unemployed workers to the countryside would provoke social unrest.

    Leo W. Gerard: To Counter Currency Manipulation: Rally Some Allies Leo W. Gerard 2010

  • In rebuffing the European Union's request for revaluing, the Chinese prime minister claimed allowing the yuan to appreciate too quickly would bankrupt Chinese factories as their prices rose to uncompetitive levels, and the resulting exodus of unemployed workers to the countryside would provoke social unrest.

    Leo W. Gerard: To Counter Currency Manipulation: Rally Some Allies Leo W. Gerard 2010

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