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Jo's five-year-old son Rowan is also autistic, classed as a "school refuser" because he's been unable to attend since February.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025

In dealing with a refuser, a health worker might insist on playing it.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2021

The father of existentialism and refuser of the Nobel Prize explains that he did not accept the editorship so much "to defend La Cause du Peuple as to defend the liberty of the press."

From Time Magazine Archive

No suits at law, no wars, no strife, debate, nor wrangling; none will be there an usurer, none will be there a pinch-penny, a scrape-good wretch, or churlish hard-hearted refuser.

From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John

Yet, for the help and comfort of even such a refuser as this, I would say: Nothing which you reject can be such as it seems to you.

From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by MacDonald, George