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Discover LudwigThe phrase "blanket rejection" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a situation where something is rejected in a comprehensive or all-encompassing manner, often without consideration of individual cases. Example: "The committee issued a blanket rejection of all proposals submitted after the deadline."
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The common rhetoric about technology falls into two extreme categories: uncritical acceptance or blanket rejection.
Inquiries about opponents have been met with a polite but blanket rejection.
Some interpreted this as a blanket rejection of working with big businesses.
Last week the administrative court rejected a case lodged by the pair's lawyers, in which they argued against the Indonesian president's blanket rejection of clemency for drug felons.
His literal interpretation of Benjamin's statement that authentic art has its basis in ritual leads him to a somewhat naïve blanket rejection of theater (which he calls "a ritual of antiquity"); he also explicitly distances himself from performance art.
As part of the UN's dogged denial of culpability, the organization has made a blanket rejection of calls for compensation contained in a class action lawsuit filed in New York by victims of the disaster.
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Despite his claim to be "just as leery of wild-eyed, Pollyanna-ish optimism" as "knee-jerk, blanket rejections," he lands squarely in the gung-ho camp, suggesting that boosted genes might be inserted "into a large number of human embryos".
Two of the 10 review teams started doing blanket rejections of apps that access UDIDs this week.
While Apple did start rejecting applications with "Flappy" in the title earlier this month, its policing of these clones has been more nuanced than blanket rejections, we learned.
This fits with what we're also hearing now: that these were not blanket rejections across the board, but were more nuanced in their nature.
"He does not support a blanket-type rejection of any particular group of people," Rex Tillerson promised Congress.
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