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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

There is plenty of time to “have it out” with a refuser, and indeed to turn him backwards and forwards if you please, over the same leap, without fear of being left behind.

From Riding Recollections, 5th ed. by Whyte-Melville, G. J. (George John)

And such an acknowledgment would justify the other in more open means of revenge, and would stamp the refuser as a coward also.

From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by Spears, John R.