Dismissed in sentence

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And I am reminded that throughout the world there are cultures with vast sums of knowledge in them, as potent as the Micronesian navigators, that are going dismissed, that this is a testament to brilliant, brilliant technology and science and wisdom that is vanishing rapidly.

And I started to see floaters and stars, which I casually dismissed as too much high-altitude sun exposure.

But when anger turns to contempt, you've been dismissed.

And when we talk about women, they are either exceptions to be dismissed or aberrations to be ignored.

But when the fund pays bail, over half the cases are dismissed.

They dismissed us.

The President dismissed the Secretary of State, whom he was conferring with, and asked the dentist if he would remove a tooth.

Adults who exhibit genuine joy are often dismissed as childish or too feminine or unserious or self-indulgent, and so we hold ourselves back from joy, and we end up in a world that looks like this.

What I've come to realize about Afghanistan, and this is something that is often dismissed in the West, that behind most of us who succeed is a father who recognizes the value in his daughter and who sees that her success is his success.

Who are the different players in creating value in the economy, and is the state's role, has it been sort of dismissed as being a backseat player?

So even in its imperfection, the growth of the Chinese internet should not be dismissed, and it's worthy of our closer examination.

But one day, Rob noticed some faint signals coming out of the instrument that we dismissed as electronic noise for probably a year before we realized that it wasn't really behaving like noise.

And on the other side, some African-Americans dismissed or ignored homophobia that was indeed real in our community.

My charges were dismissed, but a few weeks later, two FBI agents knocked on my door, and they told me that unless I helped them by spying on protest groups, they would put me on a domestic terrorist list.

The judge dismissed all those fears, saying that they weren't supported by any facts.

Religions can't be dismissed or ignored.

Now, if you told me 20 years ago that a modern city could exist without a supply of imported water, I probably would have dismissed you as an unrealistic and uninformed dreamer.

For so long, we dismissed all these novel ecosystems as trash.

Some of my ideas are flat out dismissed and then brought up by somebody else and championed.

I actually read about Emma's story from the pages of a legal opinion written by a judge who had dismissed Emma's claim of race and gender discrimination against a local car manufacturing plant.

Now, the judge in question dismissed Emma's suit, and the argument for dismissing the suit was that the employer did hire African-Americans and the employer hired women.

We get dismissed or demeaned or even ostracized.

And some of them, two or three years ago, basically dismissed it.

Now imagine that whenever this employee went to go meet with her team members, the appointments were ignored or dismissed, and in the meetings that did happen, she was yelled at or kicked out after a few minutes.

Things like the egg shouldn't be dismissed as the mundane little things that we just give the kids to play with on a Saturday afternoon to keep them quiet.

And the thing is, if they're not harmful, they're not to be completely dismissed.

Anger has now been implicated in a whole array of illnesses that are casually dismissed as "women's illnesses."

But while romance is a common thread in her work, Austen dismissed the sentimental style of writing so popular at the time.

What if you felt dismissed by the doctor, that they ignored your needs, or you even felt judged?

I had come here looking for objectivity and support and instead I felt dismissed and silenced, and I hated myself for it.

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