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Denial in sentence

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But in spite of that, I went through the first 10 or 15 years of my career mostly in denial of being a woman.
Well first we heard what's known as a non-contracted denial.
Studies show that people who are overdetermined in their denial will resort to formal rather than informal language.
The Decompiculture Society shares a vision of a cultural shift, from our current culture of death denial and body preservation to one of decompiculture, a radical acceptance of death and decomposition.
So the first consistent component of regret is basically denial.
The students realized that many of these elderly people were in denial of their hearing loss.
It's a complete denial of mistakes.
But it is also time that we ended our denial and recognized that we're not acting, we're not close to acting and we're not going to act until this crisis hits the economy.
Perhaps denial.
What may be more reprehensible, if climate denial continues, is extermination of species.
And because of that fear, we tend to do one of two things: We go into denial: "It's not me, it has nothing to do with me, it's never going to happen to me."
Other outcomes include long-term stalking, even after the abuser remarries; denial of financial resources; and manipulation of the family court system to terrify the victim and her children, who are regularly forced by family court judges to spend unsupervised time with the man who beat their mother.
I was able to leave, because of one final, sadistic beating that broke through my denial.
There are really serious calamities staring us in the eye that we're in the same kind of denial about that we were about terrorism, and what could've happened on September 11.
So, this is a topic that normally inspires fear and denial.
I'm going to show you that you're all synesthetes, but you're in denial about it.
They say it's denial.
Yet I will tell you that denial isn't even close to a strong enough word to describe what those of us facing the death of our loved ones go through.
And I hear the medical professionals say, "Well, we'd like to do such-and-such, but the family's in denial.
They're in denial.
It's so clear, yet they're in denial."
The medical professionals too, you out there, you're in denial too.
You just redefine denial and hope, and it becomes a feature of being human.
The overwhelming presence of hope isn't denial.
So the question is, are we doomed to lead the one life we have in a way that is shaped by fear and denial, or can we overcome this bias?
And the hatch is closed, and suddenly, what has been a lifetime of both dreams and denial is becoming real, something that I dreamed about, in fact, that I chose to do when I was nine years old, is now suddenly within not too many minutes of actually happening.
They've hacked popes and politicians, and I think their effect is larger than simple denial of service attacks that take down websites or even leak sensitive documents.
Ignorance and denial are on the rise.
We fret too much about minor hazards — improbable air crashes, carcinogens in food, low radiation doses, and so forth — but we and our political masters are in denial about catastrophic scenarios.
We gotta get out of denial.
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