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refused

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However, he revealed in a social media post that his application for a US visa was refused.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

Hugging Face tried using Anthropic models to analyze its logs, but the models refused to do the analysis, citing its guardrails against cyberattacks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

I refused a subpoena to appear before a grand jury to discuss the source of a leak of national-security information.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Some people in Le Barp, a village around 30 kilometres south of Bordeaux, refused to evacuate, others said they did not know where to go.

From Barron's Jul. 26, 2026

When sores began to appear all over her legs that she refused to see a doctor for.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman