Helps
Refuse
Refuse verb - To be unwilling to grant.
Both words in one sentence
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It helps that his sons have grown to love Annie and refuse to acknowledge the reveal.
Source: Film / Overboard - However, knowing that they would refuse and in fact break into her home to retrieve the cure themselves, she eventually helps them save Sally, all in a ploy to gain their trust and leading them to believe that she's merely an Unwitting Pawn and that Moorpark's the true mastermind.
Source: Series / Spooksville - Hero with Bad Publicity: All Roger Maris does is put up one of the greatest two-year stretches in history and helps the team win, and what he gets in return is a press who vilifies him and fans who not just refuse to support him, but send him death threats, even to his wife at home.
Source: Film / Sixty One
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