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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of refuse.

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Examples

  • "Raymond Vs. Raymond" has been delayed until March 30 because his label refuses to move forward until he finds a new manager.

    EURweb admin 2010

  • "Raymond Vs. Raymond" has been delayed until March 30 because his label refuses to move forward until he finds a new manager.

    EURweb admin 2010

  • Obama asserted that McCain "refuses" to learn from the "failures" of the Bush years and claimed instead of offering an exit strategy from Iraq, McCain is offering a 100-year occupation.

    'Bush-McCain Politics' - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com 2008

  • In wildest fantasy, even, my brain refuses to follow Mr. Burroughs into the primeval forest, where Glen's dim ancestors, to the tooting of automobile horns, were fixing into the heredity of the breed the particular instinct that would enable Glen, a few thousand years later, capably to cope with automobiles.

    The Other Animals 2010

  • While riding into a Cimmerian village to recruit his old comrade, Corin, his large collection of mercenaries slaughters them to the last soul when Corin refuses to join them.

    Stephen Lang Offered Conan Villain Role | /Film 2010

  • And at the same time I want something to change, I want nothing to change, because my brain refuses to believe that whatever change comes my way will be a bad thing.

    my tetris life tragic_elegance 2008

  • McCain refuses to say if he's healthy enough to ha ...

    Romney using proxies to convince voters he really IS anti-gay, really 2008

  • McCain refuses to say if he's healthy enough to ha ...

    Oil hits $100 per barrel 2008

  • McCain refuses to repudiate Hagee when he insults all Catholic Americans with his moronic views, but he dumps him wihtin seconds when he insults Jewish aAericans with more moronic opinions.

    McCain rejects endorsement of a second controversial pastor 2008

  • A buoy is tossed over the rail but the captain refuses to hard down the helm and send a boat to rescue.

    “Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, . . . .” 2008

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