dismiss
verb (used with object)
to direct (an assembly of persons) to disperse or go.
is dismissing
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present progressiveof dismiss (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"The reason you can hear a lot of boos is because Michael Oliver is dismissing cramp as an idea for the Arsenal players," Gary Neville said on Sky Sports.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2024
But I don’t think “Memoria” is dismissing its own technology so much as it’s reminding the audience how much more there is to reality than our attempts to represent it.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
After all, the AFC-champion Chiefs are 1-2, and nobody is dismissing them — just as few dismissed the world-champion Bucs after posting the same record through three weeks last season.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
In a court document Friday, Gardiner wrote that he is dismissing the case “upon the Commonwealth’s position that the petition is not based on facts establishing probable cause for removal.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2021
Most Christian Majesty, now IN EXTREMIS, centre of the basest hubbub that ever was, is dismissing Chateauroux.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle
