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The phrase "applicants were rejected" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the outcome of applications, such as job applications, school admissions, or grant proposals.
Example: "After careful consideration, the committee decided that several applicants were rejected due to incomplete submissions."
Alternatives: "candidates were turned down" or "applicants were denied".
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All other applicants were rejected because they had no prospects for repaying the loans, according to the plan's administrator.
When I worked at the U.S. Embassy in Ghana in the late 1970s, many nonimmigrant visa applicants were rejected.
All the applicants were rejected for positions, while employees who tested positive were either dismissed or suspended or denied promotions.
Half the black applicants for private-sector loans and a third of Hispanic applicants were rejected, the report said, in contrast to only a fourth of white applicants.
As a result, 7 of every 10 applicants were rejected, a rate that far exceeded that in other major relief efforts.
In all, 54,141 people, about 18 percent of all asylum applicants, were rejected because they did not meet the deadline, the study found.
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Denials have soared; now just over half of applicants are rejected.
Nationally, 30 percent of applicants are rejected, according to the law project.
One in five applicants is rejected, and the money is not returned.
Many low-scoring applicants are rejected today (the army is a fighting machine, not a remedial school).
"Where there is an age-out, we have no discretion," Mr. Bentley said, referring to cases in which applicants are rejected when they turn 21.
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