Definition of "dismissing" []

• Present participle of dismiss. (verb)

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• "From the curvaceous slopes of California where failed former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina -- like all but one other GOP Senate candidate -- apparently knows more than 32 national science academies and the Pentagon in dismissing the threat posed by global warming."
• "The Republican National Committee is once again dismissing criticism from Republican insiders that Chairman Michael Steele's election-year operation has left the party in a far less advantageous state than it otherwise would have been in this midterm cycle."
• "If it did, I would be justified in dismissing arguments against free trade on the grounds that many who make such arguments are at risk of losing their jobs or have actually lost their jobs."