How to Use say no in a Sentence
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More than one month after a New Jersey mom was killed in her suburban home, prosecutors say no arrests have been made.
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Emily Shapiro,
ABC News,
9 July 2026
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County officials say no imminent life-safety concerns currently exist.
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Nora O'Neill,
Charlotte Observer,
6 July 2026
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This inability to say no leaves Hassan with very little time to mourn the recent loss of a close friend, the matter made even graver when the villager discovers his friend’s death may not have been an accident after all.
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Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
8 July 2026
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People typically get hantavirus from contact with rodents like rats and mice—normally when exposed to their urine, droppings and saliva, or sometimes through a bite or scratch—but officials say no rodents have been found on the MV Hondius ship.
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Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
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Because the city owns Palmetto Research Park, officials were able to hold out and say no to several redevelopment opportunities the past four years in order to bring in high-pay jobs, said Rock Hill Mayor John Gettys.
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John Marks,
Charlotte Observer,
29 June 2026
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