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After mentioning that The Washington Post Co. owns Stanley Kaplan, the expensive SAT test-prep company, a WP editorial dismisses ETS's new "Striver" category as "troubling."
The Wall Street Journal dismisses the seriousness of the investigation but calls it "one more headache for Microsoft."
Clark, who contemptuously dismisses the artist's "boulevard pastorals."
But in this case, the story line of the hour--"Judge dismisses Jones case"--was too strong to evade.
Robert W. Burchfield, the longtime editor of the Oxford English Dictionary , treats the phrase with magisterial derision in The New Fowler's Modern English Usage (1996)--he dismisses it as "one of the ignoble clichés introduced into the language in the 20c.