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Appeared in the April 8, 2026, print edition as 'Automakers Rebuffed on Aluminum Tariff Relief'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Rebuffed by the United States in recent years, it has poured resources into research and development there.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2022

Rebuffed by Harrison, Tecumseh took his campaign southward and urged the Creek Confederacy to join him in war against the whites.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Rebuffed by Alvarez, Golovkin scored a fifth-round technical knockout of England’s Kell Brook Sept. 10.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2016

Rebuffed, she left the room and went upstairs and lay on the bed with Clarissa, and read without taking in a word, feeling her irritation and confusion grow.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan