Example Sentences

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He said too many people had been "denying, downplaying, rationalising the horrors of the Holocaust".

From BBC • May 7, 2024

This was the stuff of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and “Ridiculousness” — my own algorithm had been denying me these goofball pleasures.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024

Medi-Cal had been denying claims because providers had treated patients in the field, not in hospitals or clinics.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2023

He testified at Shakur’s trial that he had confessed to him—a claim that Shakur had been denying for more than two decades.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 13, 2016

For a year now they had been denying how I was changing, putting it down to the awkward age.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides