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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dismiss .
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Examples
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Well, Lowenstein dismisses such concerns as “overblown.”
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This call dismisses claims made by Senator Obama about Senator McCain's economic policies in his June 9th speech as campaign rhetoric.
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Highlight: In her list of "ten people that history regards as winners and whom I regard as losers ... dangerous role models," Wasserstein dismisses anti-sloth William Shakespeare.
On the nightstand (under the pillow, in the knapsack, etc.) M-mv 2005
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LeGuin dismisses young adult fiction as a fake category born out of the needs of publishers, bookselleers, and librarians even though she does not shun the demographic.
Teen Fiction 2005
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The article goes on to say that LeGuin dismisses young adult fiction as a fake category born out of the needs of publishers, bookselleers, and librarians even though she does not shun the demographic.
More on Earthsea 2004
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The article goes on to say that LeGuin dismisses young adult fiction as a fake category born out of the needs of publishers, bookselleers, and librarians even though she does not shun the demographic.
December 2004 2004
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In the article just cited, for instance, the Anti-Jacobin dismisses
Bibliographic Romance: Bibliophilia and the Book Object 2004
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Simkin dismisses the central theme of Fahrenheit 911 in an impressive post (post #15 in the thread).
Archive 2004-08-01 Laban 2004
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'Hipster' label dismisses a holistic understanding
The Michigan Daily 2008
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What is the dexterous management of the more inartificial historians of Christianity, in exaggerating the numbers of the martyrs, compared to the unfair address with which Gibbon here quietly dismisses from the account all the horrible and excruciating tortures which fell short of death?
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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