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Black commits a few minor positional transgressions in this classic Queen’s Gambit Declined line — a squandered tempo here, a misplaced piece there — and quickly, inexorably finds himself hopelessly lost.

From Washington Times • Sep. 20, 2022

Katherine Heigl, 2008 Award: Declined Emmy consideration Why and how they refused: Heigl played Dr. Izzie Stevens on "Grey's Anatomy," a role that earned her a supporting actress Emmy in 2007.

From Salon • May 16, 2021

They both agree that Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined – an 800-page tome by Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker is a must-read.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2018

ROMNEY: Declined to state whether he would have supported.

From Forbes • Oct. 17, 2012

He sat down on the bed, folded the letter the long way of the sheet and indorsed it in pencil: "Declined."

From A Hoosier Chronicle by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)