The misfortunes of people are what economists dismiss as "anecdotal evidence" about the state of the nation.

Only a few economists dismissed the latest reading on consumer buying as implausible.

Orthodox economists do not entirely dismiss the incentive effects of lower tax rates.

Most economists have dismissed that out of hand.

But economists dismiss the idea, at least for the immediate future.

But economists generally dismissed the notion that a pre-election call of the ending would have made a significant difference at the ballot box.

And economists predicted that the surplus would continue to rise and dismissed the importance of the slowdown in March.

But the bond market stumbled on the news, and economists did not completely dismiss the error.

Most economists dismiss such complaints of political favoritism.

But economists, as well as rivals, dismissed it as unworkable.