During the denial phase, you could become delusional.

"The usual path for bankers during a rolling recession is a prolonged denial phase, but this time we didn't stick our heads in the sand."

Most people, however, entered a serious denial phase based on fear.

Baseball clubs and agents will end the denial phase of the free-agent market beginning today.

Now we are in a denial phase.

With postwar studies confirming a statistical relationship between smoking and cancer, the industry went into a denial phase that would last decades.

"The government is coming out of its denial phase," said Dr. Gray, who has criticized the government's policy.

In retrospect, the denial phase seems comical.

"It's almost written in a denial phase," he said.

Those "Jericho" people are way, way, way in the denial phase of grief.